Documentary testimonies
Subtitle: global archives of suffering
By: edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker.
Contributors: Sarkar, B.; Walker, Janet.
Series: AFI film readers series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780415996631; 9780415996648; 9780203883419
Subjects: Documentary films -- Production and direction; Documentary films -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : moving testimonies / Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker; title: Embodied memory : the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Noah Shenker; title: "We shall drown, but we shall not move" : the ecologics of testimony in NBA documentaries / Bishnupriya Ghosh; title: Rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after Katrina / Janet Walker; title: From "superbabies" and "Nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice : the memory trajectory of the Norwegian lebensborn children / Bjørn Sørenssen; title: Reclamation of voice : the joint authorship of testimony in the murmuring trilogy / Hye Jean Chung; title: Trauma, memory, documentary : re-enactment in two films by Rithy Panh (Cambodia) and Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) / Deirdre Boyle; title: On documentary and testimony : the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at Acteal, Chiapas / José Rabasa; title: Mediating testimony : broadcasting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Catherine Cole; title: Mediating genocide : producing digital survivor testimony in Rwanda / Mick Broderick; title: Between orbit and the ground : conflict monitoring, Google Earth and the "Crisis in Darfur" Project /  Lisa Parks.