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"In response to numerous assertions by filmmakers and scholars that documentary is past or beyond definition-as if it functioned as an aesthetic strait-jacket-Dan Geva offers an emphatic and compelling NO! Rather, he asserts that the issue of definition consistently hovers over both scholarship and production of documentary. In this volume, Geva opens up, through lucid philosophical investigations of filmmakers' writings and films, the definitions that emerge in their work. By attending to both their cultural and historical particularity as well as their function as a single transhistorical enunciation, Geva speaks to the extraordinary range of practices and thought that existed between 1985-1959 while maintaining that there is such a thing as 'documentariness.'" -Joshua Malitsky, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies/The Media School and Director, Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, USA "In an age when the concepts of 'fact' and 'science' have become focal points of political controversy, Dan Geva's meticulous historical exploration of the ethical implications of the very idea of 'documentary' film are especially useful for documentarians, film historians and media theoreticians alike." -Julia Leasage, Professor Emerita, English Department, University of Oregon, USA This book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of "documentary" between the years 1895 and 1959. The book dedicates one chapter to each of the thirty definitions, scrutinizing their idiosyncratic language games from close range while focusing on their historical roots and concealed philosophical sources of inspiration. Dan Geva's principal argument is twofold: first, that each definition is an original ethical premise of documentary; and second, that only the structured assemblage of the entire set of definitions successfully depicts the true ethical nature of documentary insofar as we agree to consider its philosophical history as a reflective object of thought in a perpetual state of being-self-defined: an ethics sui generis. Dan Geva is an associate professor at Beit-Berl college, a research fellow at the University of Haifa, an award winning documentarian, and founder of "The Ethics Lab" (CILECT, 2017).

Metaphysics --- Aesthetics --- Film --- esthetica --- documentaires (genre) --- metafysica

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The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the significant rise in interest in recent times in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. It examines the works, contributions and participation of female documentary directors globally. The central preoccupation of the book is to consider what might constitute a 'female gaze', an inquiry that has had a long history in filmmaking, film theory and women's art. It fills a gap in the literature which to date has not substantially examined the work of female documentary directors. Moreover, research on sex, gender and the gaze has been relatively infrequently the subject of scholarship on documentary film, particularly in comparison to narrative film or television drama. A distinctive feature of the book is that it is based on interviews with significant female documentarians from Europe, Asia and North America. "This book will make a fabulous contribution to the field. It will have currency amongst a burgeoning generation of scholars, including undergraduates and postgraduates who are interested in the questions of aesthetics, politics and mechanics of female documentary filmmaking. It will also find an audience with scholars interested in the growing field of film festival studies. It draws on a set of interviews conducted and facilitated at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival and attends to the function of the female gaze and its attendant qualities in relation to several other festivals. It will be a "go-to" resource in film studies." - Deane Williams, Monash University, Australia.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Film --- documentaires (genre) --- gender

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Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In what ways are 'facts' being presented and framed? What is documentary honesty in a world of fake news and post-truth politics? How can the stories of marginalized peoples and neglected crises be told? The author investigates documentary comics in its unique relationship to framing: graphic narratives are essentially shaped by a reciprocal relationship between the manifest frames on the page and the attention to the cognitive frames that they generate. To account for both the textuality of comics and its strategic use as rhetoric, the author combines theories of framing analysis and cognitive narratology with comics studies and its attention toward the medium's visual frames.

Journalism --- Sociology of culture --- Film --- populaire cultuur --- journalisten --- documentaires (genre) --- Documentary comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism.