Collecting Visible Evidence

Jane Gaines

ISBN 10: 0816631360 / ISBN 13: 9780816631360

Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1999

About this Item

pp. 352.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collecting Visible Evidence
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816631360
• ISBN 13: 9780816631360
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.

In documentary studies, the old distinctions between fiction and nonfiction no longer apply, as contemporary film and video artists produce works that defy classification. Coming together to make sense of these developments, the contributors to this book effectively redefine documentary studies. They trace the documentary impulse in the early detective camera, in the reenactment of battle scenes from World War I, and in the telecast of the Nevada A-bomb test in 1952. Other topics include experiments in virtual reality; the crisis of representation in anthropology; and video art and documentary work that challenge the asymmetry of the postcolonial us/them divide.

Contributors: Jenny Cool; Elizabeth Cowie, U of Kent; Faye Ginsburg, New York U; Tom Gunning, U of Chicago; Eithne Johnson; Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College; Neil Lerner, Davidson College; Akira Mizuta Lippit, San Francisco State U; Nancy Lutkehaus, USC; James M. Moran; Vivian Sobchack, UCLA; Linda Williams, U of California, Berkeley; Mark Williams, Dartmouth College; Mark J. P. Wolf, Concordia U, Wisconsin.

About the Author

Jane M. Gaines is associate professor of literature and English and director of the Program in Film and Video at Duke University.

Michael Renov is professor of critical studies in the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California.