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Author Zimmermann, Patricia Rodden, author.

Title Documentary across platforms : reverse engineering media, place, and politics / Patricia R. Zimmermann ; foreword by Gina Marchetti
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages)
Contents Part I. Platforms; 1. Reverse Engineering: Taking Things Apart for the New Global Media Ecology; 2. Ardent Spaces, Formidable Environments; 3. Precious Places: Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia; 4. The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves; 5. Cartographies of Impossible and Possible Worlds: The Photography of Michael Kienitz; 6. Black Soil: Chernozem and Tusit in Ukraine; Part II. Reversals; 7. Matrices of War; 8. Blasting War; 9. Digital Deployments
10. Public Domains: Engaging Iraq through Experimental Digitalities11. Cambodian Digital Imaginary Archive: Genocide, Lara Croft, and Crafts; Part III. Histories; 12. The Home Movie Archive Live; 13. Throbs and Pulsations: Les LeVeque and the Digitizing of Desire; 14. Just Say No: Negativland's No Business; 15. Remixed and Revisited Black Cinema: Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates Live Project; 16. Live!: Reconnecting the Histories of Live Multimedia Performance; 17. Toward a Theory of Participatory New Media Documentary; Part IV. Speculative Engineering; 18. Home Movie Axioms
19. Speculations on Environmental Sensualities and Eco-Documentaries; 20. Speculations on Reverse Engineering: Algorithms for Recombinant Documentaries across Platforms
Summary "In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as "documentary" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. Collected here for the first time are her celebrated essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new media published outside of traditional scholarly venues. These essays envision documentary as a complex ecology composed of different technologies, sets of practices, and specific relationships to communities, engagement, politics, and social struggles. Through the lens of reverse engineering--the concept that ideas just like objects can be disassembled to learn how they work and then rebuilt into something new and better--Zimmermann explores how numerous small-scale documentary works present strategies of intervention into existing power structures. Adaptive to their context, modular, and unfixed, the documentary practices she explores exploit both sophisticated high-end professional and consumer-grade amateur technologies, moving through different political terrains, different platforms, and different exhibition contexts. Together these essays demonstrate documentary's role as a conceptual practice to think through how the world is organized and to imagine ways that it might be reorganized with actions, communities, and ideas"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2020)
Subject Documentary films -- Philosophy
Documentary mass media -- Philosphy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Documentary films -- Philosophy
Dokumentarfilm
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981218
ISBN 9780253043498
0253043492
9780253043504
0253043506