...Takushi Odagiri This article examines Kawase’s films, with a focus on her early documentaries in autobiographical forms (in the 1990s and early 2000s). Far from being a simple mimesis of her everyday reality, Kawase’s cinema-verité–like autobiographies have distinct features. In particular...

... documen- tary movements in the 1960s: direct cinema in North America, and the French cinéma verité in Europe (on these documentary movements, see Mamber 1974; Grant and Sloniowski 1998). The two observational styles S da uses for his documentary roughly correspond to the filmmaking phi- losophy...

... aesthetic and epistemological breaks from the traditional Korean independent documentary of the 1980s and 1990s, which was governed by the cinema verité ethos of privileging the director's immediate, on-the-spot engagement with social events (strikes or antidemolition protests) and their subjects as well...

... verité mode, and privileged the director's direct engagement with the events and their subjects. This break—which also required documentary practitioners to transition from “activists” to “filmmakers” and for cinema to shift from a tool of revolutionary change to a means of personal expression...

... in South Korea. He is the author of Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary (2022) and Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (2016). He is currently finalizing Post-verité Turns: Korean Documentary Cinema in the 21st...

... and its conceptualization largely took their own course in Japan.They developed with relative autonomy visvis Euro-American nonfiction film.Japanese writers and directors were aware of vérité, direct cinema, third cinema, and developments...

... personal state- ments about their own senses of loss and desire. In Sans Soleil a sprawling travel monologue lmed mostly in Japan and West Africa, cinema- verité director Chris Marker expresses that “only banality still positions 20:4 Fall 2012...

..., or ordinary folk. The vérité aesthetic for which these directors became famous was precisely intended to capture this experience of shoot- ing “on the scene,”7 a practice known in Chinese as xianchang. While xianchang has been parsed in different...

...- tional documentary filmmakers such as Frederick Wiseman and Ogawa Shinsuke, these early practitioners have been committed to making visible an unofficial Chinese verité through technical and stylistic decisions such as positions 21:3  doi...

..., by our- selves. Without deciding anything for the moment as to the veritable significance of the presence of the ideas of things in us, without holding to the Cartesian argumentation that proves the separated existence...

... to “Asian Tiger.” And it must be said that Hong Kong would not be what it is today without this gendered domestic labor. Filipinas are invisibly cloistered in the same buildings owned by their wards, veritable bonded servants, often turned...

... to a veritable “anti-­piracy industry” involving forms and practices such as watermarking, P2P traffic measurement, even legal advertising piggybacking on piracy, and policing/ enforcement agencies such as IIPA, Web Sheriff, and BayTSP.45 Such stud...

... it is less informed by a gendered critique of cooking, serving, and eating than the first book. Jaffrey’s introduction to this volume is a veritable discovery of India, as she describes the fortuitous diversity that characterizes her circle of friends...

...Joan Kee 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Claiming Sites of Independence: Articulating Hysteria in Pak Ch’˘ol-su’s 301/302 Joan Kee The first fifteen minutes of Pak Ch’˘ol-su’s 301/302 (1995) is a veritable mélange of stylized poses, lush...

... if it happens after the end of the film. In the other story, Zhao Tao plays Shen Hong, a woman looking for a husband she has not heard from in two years. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao . . . a veritable communist hall of fame — their portraits...

... presently.9 The background of this sartorial web of desire, consumption, and passion is, again for the first time, Shanghai. The treaty port where East met West on a daily basis, fictional Shanghai is depicted as a veritable modern metropolis, with its...

... and the pleasures of commodi- fied flesh, the Thailand of tourist propaganda and travelogues is a veritable bordello of the Western erotic imaginary. And yet, despite the aura of sex- ual excess that infects both local and Western representations...