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Documentary's Expanded Fields

By Jihoon Kim

Documentary's Expanded Fields Media & Communication

Documentary's Expanded Fields

By Jihoon Kim

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Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documentary practices enabled by the proliferation of new digital imaging, lightweight and non-operator digital cameras, multiscreen and interactiveinterfaces, and web 2.0 platforms. These emergent practices encompass digital data visualizations, digital films that experiment with the deliberate manipulation of photographic records, documentaries based on drone cameras, GoPros, and virtual reality (VR) interfaces, documentary installations inthe gallery, interactive documentary (i-doc), citizens' vernacular online videos that document scenes of the protests such as the Arab Spring, the Hong Kong Protests, and the Black Lives Matter Movements, and new activist films, videos, and archiving projects that respond to those politicalupheavals. Building on the interdisciplinary framework of documentary studies, digital media studies, and contemporary art criticism, Jihoon Kim investigates the ways in which these practices both challenge and update the aesthetic, epistemological, political, and ethical assumptions of traditional film-baseddocumentary. Providing a diverse range of case studies that classify and examine these practices, the book argues that the new media technologies and the experiential platforms outside the movie theater, such as the gallery, the world wide web, and social media services, expand five horizons ofdocumentary cinema: image, vision, dispositif, archive, and activism. This reconfiguration of these five horizons demonstrates that documentary cinema in the age of new media and platforms, which Kim labels as the 'twenty-first-century documentary, ' dynamically changes its boundaries while alsoexploring new experiences of reality and history in times of the contemporary crises across the globe, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2022-02-15
Publication Date:
2022-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197603823
ISBN13:
9780197603826
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
483 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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