A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

Content: Notes on Contributors ix     Introduction: A World Encountered 1  Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow     Part I Planet 19  Juan Francisco Salazar     Introduction 21  Juan Francisco Salazar     1 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries 28  Imre Szeman     2 Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary Change in Documentary Film 43  Juan Francisco Salazar     3 Projecting Sea Level Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies 61  Janet Walker     Part II Migration 87  Aniko Imre     Introduction 89  Aniko Imre     4 Videogeographies 92  Ursula Biemann     5 Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace 108  Leshu Torchin     6 Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics 124  Mieke Bal     Part III Work 145  Silke Panse     Introduction 147  Silke Panse     7 The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics 155  Silke Panse     8 Old School Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of ?elimir ?ilnik's Workers 176  Ewa Mazierska     9 Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film 191  Anna E. Ward     Part IV Sex 209  Laura Hyun Yi Kang     Introduction 211  Laura Hyun Yi Kang     10 Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC 217  Patricia White     11 Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo's Senorita Extraviada (2001) 233  Rosa-Linda Fregoso     12 Reading Realness: Paris Is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice 252  Eve Oishi     Part V Virus 271  Bishnupriya Ghosh     Introduction 273  Bishnupriya Ghosh     13 Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film 280  Kirsten Ostherr     14 HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa 298  Rebecca Hodes     15 Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses, and Quilts 314  Alexandra Juhasz     Part VI Religion 335  Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow     Introduction 337  Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow     16 Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject 341  Angelica Fenner     17 The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the Second Intifada 366  Raya Morag     18 Tran Van Thuy's Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse 384  Dean Wilson     Part VII War 401  Jeffrey Skoller     Introduction 403  Jeffrey Skoller     19 Second Thoughts on "The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition" 410  Jane M. Gaines     20 One, Two, Three Montages ... Harun Farocki's War Documentaries 431  Nora M. Alter     21 The Unwar Film 454  Alisa Lebow     Part VIII Torture 475  Alisa Lebow     Introduction 477  Alisa Lebow     22 (In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture 482  Susana de Sousa Dias     23 Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide 506  Deirdre Boyle     24 The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos 524  Macarena Gomez-Barris     25 Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film 536  Anjali Nath     Part IX Surveillance 557  Elizabeth Cowie     Introduction 559  Elizabeth Cowie     26 Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Documentaries 566  Sharon Lin Tay     27 The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance 580  Elizabeth Cowie     28 Surveillance in the Service of Narrative 611  Brian Winston     29 Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance 629  Patrik Sjoberg     Index 647