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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.
On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the
National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by
daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in
public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court
denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned
sleep into a form of direct action. During and after the Second
World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an
epidemic of "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in
clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the
mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would
weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam War era, radical
veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic
symptoms-nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia-and pioneered new methods
of protest. In Fighting Sleep, Franny Nudelman recounts the
struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that sleep was
instrumental to the development of military science, professional
psychiatry, and antiwar activism. Traversing the fields of military
and mainstream psychiatry, popular and institutional film,
documentary sound technology, brain warfare, and postwar social
movements, she demonstrates that sleep-far from being passive,
empty, or null-is a site of contention and a source of political
agency.
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.
Singing ""John Brown's Body"" as they marched to war, Union
soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death.
As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle,
writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means
to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit,
and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the
development of national identity. Revisiting the culture of the
Civil War, Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death
and explores alternative ways of depicting the violence of war.
Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she
argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood
without attention to the brutality directed against African
Americans during the antebellum era. Throughout, Nudelman focuses
not only on representations of the dead but also on practical
methods for handling, studying, and commemorating corpses. She
narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the
dead: whether in the anatomy classroom or the Army Medical Museum,
at the military scaffold or the national cemetery, the corpse was
prized as a source of authority. Integrating the study of death,
oppression, and war, John Brown's Body makes an important
contribution to a growing body of scholarship that meditates on the
relationship between violence and culture.
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