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After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous
rethinking of established documentary practices and histories.
Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era-the
atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the
emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee
crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the
financial collapse of 2008-documentary makers increasingly
reconceived reality as the site of social conflict and saw their
work as instrumental to struggles for justice. Examining a wide
range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative
journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a
daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice
from 1945 to the present. Essays by leading scholars across
disciplines collectively explore the activist impulse of
documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their
audiences to take part in reality's remaking. In addition to the
editors, the volume's contributors include Michael Mark Cohen,
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh
Raiford, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, and Daniel
Worden.
What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My
Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's
historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek
mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope
Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present
themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a
portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADAL; he and Stavans
use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage
with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics.
Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way
readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of
twenty-first-century life.
Video production requires a high degree of organization to be a
success. Good organization will require a proper diary to be kept
of your production. It is the understanding of the paperwork and
its organization that will make your production either a success or
a failure. Explained in accessible terms and assuming little prior
knowledge of the subject, this book will help you to: plan
successful procedures for all stages of a video production; produce
paperwork logically to get professional results; understand the
basic principles of setting up and running your own business; avoid
common (and costly) pitfalls. If you are a student who wishes to
learn about all aspects of planning and documenting a video
production, from conceptualization right through to final
screening, this book is for you. It is particularly suitable for
the City and Guilds Media Techniques Certificate: Television and
Video Production Competences. This book complements the other three
titles in the series, which allow you to understand the overall
process of video production, and then look in more detail at sound
and lighting.
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