Filming history from below : microhistorical documentaries /
Cuevas Álvarez, Efrén
Filming history from below : microhistorical documentaries / Efrén Cuevas - New York : Wallflower, an imprint of Columbia University Press, 2022 - viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Nonfictions .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : film and history
1. Microhistory and documentary film
2. The archive in the microhistorical documentary
3. Pťer Forgc̀s's home movie chronicle of the twentieth century : The Maelstrom, Free Fall, and Class Lot
4. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II : Something Strong Within, A Family Gathering, From a Silk Cocoon, and History and Memory
5. Rithy Panh's autobiographical narrative of the Cambodian genocide : The Missing Picture
6. Identities and conflicts in Israel and Palestine : Israel: A Home Movie, For My Children, My Terrorist, My Land Zion, and A World Not Ours
7. The immigrant experience in Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost
Epilogue : Looking to the Future
In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrň Cuevas categorizes these films as "microhistorical documentaries" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions
9780231195973 0231195974
Cine documental --Historia y crítica
Historia en el cine
PN 1995.9 / C965f 2022
Filming history from below : microhistorical documentaries / Efrén Cuevas - New York : Wallflower, an imprint of Columbia University Press, 2022 - viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Nonfictions .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : film and history
1. Microhistory and documentary film
2. The archive in the microhistorical documentary
3. Pťer Forgc̀s's home movie chronicle of the twentieth century : The Maelstrom, Free Fall, and Class Lot
4. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II : Something Strong Within, A Family Gathering, From a Silk Cocoon, and History and Memory
5. Rithy Panh's autobiographical narrative of the Cambodian genocide : The Missing Picture
6. Identities and conflicts in Israel and Palestine : Israel: A Home Movie, For My Children, My Terrorist, My Land Zion, and A World Not Ours
7. The immigrant experience in Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost
Epilogue : Looking to the Future
In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrň Cuevas categorizes these films as "microhistorical documentaries" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions
9780231195973 0231195974
Cine documental --Historia y crítica
Historia en el cine
PN 1995.9 / C965f 2022