Documentaries such as "An Inconvenient Truth," "Countdown to
Zero," "Inside Job," "Fahrenheit 9/11 "are powerful narratives
through which political meaning is being produced, circulated and
consumed on a global level .By casually treating the documentary
genre as one among other visual forms, the discipline of IR risks
cutting itself off from understanding the significance and
complexity of this visual culture and the ways in which it
encroaches on informed debates about global politics. The purpose
of this book is to provide new vistas for grasping and using the
genre of documentary film in the study and teaching of global
politics.
Documenting World Politics introduces the genres and sub-genres
of documentary film as they pertain to (the study of) world
politics; by offering readings of specific films and types of
films; as well as by providing interviews with directors. Together,
these increase the reflexivity of IR scholars about the ways in
which the increasingly popular medium of documentary represents and
takes part in global politics. The contributors to this volume
argue that much can be gained if we do not just think of
documentaries as a window on or intervention in reality, but as a
political epistemology that like theories involve particular
postures, strategies and methodologies towards the world to which
they provide access.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of
international relations, popular culture and world politics and
media studies alike. "
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