Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel
us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly
mobilize us to action.
Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this
interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial
practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of
capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical
veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official,
renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary
as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of witnessing
and commemoration; human rights and activist publics.
The essays provide in-depth analysis of archives of social
suffering tied to particular locales: Cambodia, Chiapas, Darfur,
India, Indonesia, Korea, New Orleans, Norway, Rwanda, South Africa,
and Washington, DC. The contributors focus on the generation and
use of testimony by public administrators and institutions, human
rights activists, documentary filmmakers, and others with interest
in environmental justice, human rights, social advocacy, and the
commemoration/prevention of genocide. Thus, this volume aims to
investigate, from a critical and translocal perspective, testimony
as social practice.
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