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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the Nicaraguan Revolution, shot in 1978–79, and her film Pictures from a Revolution (1991), in which she reconsiders those earlier images. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Documentary photograph photography and realism durational aesthetics art and social change Perhaps no two...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., dramatic lighting to render suburbia extremely edgy, has written
that he sees his photographs as being “like a story that is forever frozen between
moments” (Bright 82). Unlike a film, and unlike a documentary photograph of
an unfurling disaster—and one might take as a point of comparison one of Rick...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 338–368.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... Reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights resewed.
Stott defines documentary books as texts that combine "words and photographs to describe a
social condition" (211).
Specific information on the demographics of the reading audience is scant; however, scholars...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 290–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain begins. Leckie's goal in this book is twofold: first, to examine the substantial and understudied body of nineteenth-century documentary writing about the houses of the poor; and second, “to tackle the epistemological...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and photographers whose work challenges the
tendency of established representational and aesthetic modes—including sentimentalism,
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realism, naturalism, documentary photography, and high modernism—to cast the poor
as romanticized versions of the middle-class self...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
...-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) alongside Vik Muniz's Marat/Tião as depicted in the documentary film Waste Land ( 2010 ) as evidence of the epistemological continuity between the laissez-faire and neoliberal political landscapes of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, respectively...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of twentieth-century New York and includes readings of Eugène Atget's photographs, Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls , and contemporary television procedurals like C.S.I. —texts that may be familiar to many audiences and are productively juxtaposed in Possessed . She also draws our attention to lesser-known...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 93–99.
Published: 01 May 2010
... photographic interpreters had experimented with opti-
cal shortcuts for evaluating possible targets, monitoring enemy troop and supply
movements, and assessing bombing damage. Placing “before” and “after” pho-
tos of a location into adjacent slide projectors, intelligence workers superimposed
the two...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... genres such as the photographic collection and documentary (forms to which Meiselas turned in the effort to do justice to her subject). The durational aesthetic offers “a way to refuse the temporality of defeat, a way to refuse narrative closure while maintaining narrative as the source of causation...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Billy
the Kid as an American icon with Ondaatje’s own poetry, prose, and photographs,
which disperse constructions of the “Wild West” beyond the United States. The
form of Collected Works is thus remarkably unclassifiable. It is told from both an
omniscient perspective and Billy’s own, taking us...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... nature as an aesthetic problem posed by the Boom authors in response to previous regionalist fiction. 3 The documentary dimension of the novels he calls “primitive,” as well as their social critique and apparent lack of concern for form, were targets for Vargas Llosa's attack. He concludes...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 483–499.
Published: 01 November 2010
... specifically Coetzeean?) world into which Diary throws its unwary readers.
As it happens, this seventh “opinion” is itself about an act of reading, or rather
viewing. It details JC’s response to a BBC television documentary about Al Qaida,
the main argument of which is, JC notes, that the “US...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 94–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
... not through presence but, contradictorily, through how they are made into “absent referents.” © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Andersen Corinne . “I Am Not Who ‘I’ Pretend to Be: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Its Photographic Frontispiece...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
... . The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984 . Esteve , Mary . “A ‘Gorgeous Neutrality’: Stephen Crane’s Documentary Anaesthetics.” ELH 62 ( 1995 ): 663 –89. Fried , Michael . Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane . Chicago: U of Chicago...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
... that vitriol was the perfect metonym for late Victorian realism, a mode of fiction characterized not by its claim to the documentary but by its commitment to the explosive. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Clow , Archibald , and Nan L. Clow. “Vitriol in the Industrial Revolution.” Science...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... inspired a documentary film, Innocence of Memories (2015), scripted and narrated by him, which in turn promotes the museum. Pamuk's own bemused realization of the momentum the project has gathered is on record: “Now, there are three pieces of literature [ sic ], the Novel, the Museum and the Catalogue...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 258–280.
Published: 01 November 2002
... the documentary film "from its power-
ful social irrelevancy" ("Preface" x). In many ways amenable to the terms of a
postmodern critical description in love with problematic boundaries and inde-
terminacy, Those Bones Are Not My Child cares most about issues frequently con-
nected to identity...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... fictions and the monumental contemporary-art photographs I examine below, attempt to represent critically the ontological and political, and therefore also aesthetic, novelties generated by our drone era. There is even—and this will be a focus in what follows—a clutch of mass-market novels about drones...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 109–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that illuminate this imbrication of taking and making. Opening with a reading of a patent for the 1883 Kilburn Gun Camera (a shotgun with a camera mounted at the end that promised to photographically “bag” animals at the moment of their escape), Traisnel moves through Audubon's ornithological still life drawings...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2008
... say that many African countries are today revealing,
precisely in the painful conflicts between ethnic groups and regions, the political
and epistemic error of the logic of metonymy that masqueraded as documentary
representation in Crowther's textualization of Africa.
In his Citizen...
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