Efren Cuevas

Filming History from Below

Microhistorical Documentaries

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrà n Cuevas categorizes these films as â microhistorical documentariesâ and examines how they push cinemaâ s capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions.

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Produktdetails

• Nonfictions
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780231195973
• ISBN-10: 0231195974
• Artikelnr.: 62109343

Autorenporträt

Efrén Cuevas

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Film and History
1. Microhistory and Documentary Film
2. The Archive in the Microhistorical Documentary
3. Péter Forgács'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
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index