... (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), and has recently written on the horror of the horror film; on cinematic dream-work; and on documentary film, memory, and trauma in Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour , and on Jean Rouch and surrealism. Her essay in Camera Austria on the work of Milica Tomić...

... mobile phone video, Dark Glass (2006), the author asks if film, as a time-based art that makes every recorded “then” a “now” in the experience of viewing, can also engage us in the contingent as the traumatic real to be made knowable. Would such a documentary event be what Badiou calls a poeticization...

... a documentary inside the manicomio or asylum in his native Ferrara. 9 Here his floodlights caused the patients to have convulsions so severe that the whole production had to be called off ( Orsini 16 ). This space that couldn’t be filmed remains off-screen in, but also weirdly central to, Antonioni’s...

.... By juxtaposing such psychodrama with the documentary images of what happened to the people in Hiroshima because of the atomic bomb, the film thus problematizes the limits of representation in a self-conscious manner that is characteristic...

.../11 and the Documentary Tradition.” New Yorker 9/16 Aug. 2004: 90-93. < http://dks.thing.net/NANOOK_AND_ME.html >. Morris, Errol. “Not Every Picture Tells the Story.” New York Times 20 Nov. 2004. < http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1120-26.htm >. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die Geburt...

... missed. 5 Commenting on the political power of The Last of England (1987), Bersani and Dutoit note that Jarman “called the film a ‘documentary,’ documentary ‘from somewhere far away.’ But then it turns out that the far away was also close at hand: ‘Everything I pointed the camera at . . . had...

... . Dir. Spike Lee. hbo Documentary Films, 2006 . lloyd pratt In the Event: An Introduction If it keeps on rainin’, Obviously, if there is an event, it must...

... Perspectives . New York: Routledge, 2003 . 164 -71. McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, and John Campbell McMillan, eds. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition . New York: New Press, 2003 . Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings...

... buried under its central square. 32 Countless newsreel documentaries were made by the Istituto luce of the bonifica in the Agro Pontino (as also elsewhere), and every time Mussolini visited the areas, this too was recorded on film. What is striking about these short films is the frequency...

... Dark Age . London: British Film Institute, 2001 . Vaughan, Dai. “From Today, Cinema Is Dead.” For Documentary: Twelve Essays . Berkeley: u of California p, 1999 . 181 -92. Willemen, Paul. “Reflections on Digital Imagery: Of Mice and Men.” New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative . Ed. Martin...

..., and ephemera tossed aside are not exactly indexical traces of a life lived, as they would be in a documentary film such as Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles et al., 1975) or even in a realist classic such as Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970). They are instead reverberations and refractions of a particular...

... Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France . Berkeley: U of California P, 1993 . Merkin, Daphne. “Meditations on the Unthinkable.” Rev. of Reading the Holocaust, by Inga Clendinnen. New York Times Book Review 11 Apr. 1999 : 17 . Milton, Sybil. “The Camera as Weapon: Documentary Photography...

... of the authenticity of this depiction of death. As Miriam Hansen has pointed out, these films often effectively blur the usual distinctions between fiction and documentary: "The sensationalist appeal of such films cuts across documentary and fictional modes of representation and overtly caters to sadistic impulses...

...: A Study of Homosexual Patterns . One-volume edition. New York : Hoeber , 1948 . Katz Jonathan Ned . Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary . New York : Harper , 1983 . Lorde Audre . Zami:A New Spelling of My Name . Watertown, MA : Persephone , 1982 . Parker Richard G...

... and childbirth. In her 2013 documentary Life Is but a Dream , she discloses both that she is pregnant and that she’d previously had a miscarriage—an intimate and tragic loss she also addresses in what she has called the saddest song she has ever written, meaningfully titled “Heartbeat.” As she subsequently...

...—was endorsed by both right-wing Hindu ideologues and civilians, activists, and critics of the 2002 violence against Muslims. A number of documentary reports and fact-finding panels maintained, for example, that the withdrawal of the state government’s punishing authority created a void during the bandh...

... inspired sound waves in Adele Horne’s important 2006 documentary, The Tailenders, a portrait of the Los Angeles–based Global Recordings Network (grn), a Christian missionary organization that translates Bible stories and disseminates...

... in the United States: A Sourcebook . Ed. O’Brien Jean . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 2013 . 287 – 309 . Four Hours at the Capitol . Dir. Roberts Jamie . HBO Documentary Films , 2021 . Francis Megan Ming Wright-Rigueur Leah . “ Black Lives Matter in Historical...

... to a political history that analogizes the prison to the plantation, positioning prison abolitionists as the inheritors of nineteenth-century antislavery. This historiographical maneuver is perhaps best expressed in Netflix’s 13th , a documentary that increased in viewership by an astounding 4665% in the wake...

... to study what would be the character of such an object in case any such did exist” (Collected 4: 447, my emphasis). I emphasize the “would be” because many of Wolf’s examples concern what he calls “subjunctive documentary...