Filming history from below : microhistorical documentaries / Efrén Cuevas

By:

Cuevas Álvarez, Efrén

Language: eng Series: NonfictionsPublication details: New York : Wallflower, an imprint of Columbia University Press, 2022Description: viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780231195973
0231195974

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PN 1995.9 C965f 2022

Contents:

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

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1995.9 C965f 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000168347

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

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