...Krista Lynes The violence in Mexico is frequently signified in documentary images by the visibility of the corpse, which abstracts the social conditions of disenfranchisement and vulnerability parsed unevenly on the basis of gender and sexuality. Specifically with respect to missing and murdered...

...Yuko Miki This article delves into the strange, contradictory archives of the illegal transatlantic slave trade that flourished between Angola and Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century. The article interweaves contemporary archival encounters with the documentary trail of a notorious slave ship...

...Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman This essay examines the sonic archive of tape recording artist Tony Schwartz, in particular his 1955 Folkways album Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers . Working from assumptions located in sound studies, I argue that Schwartz's recordings...

...Eric Hayot This essay argues that the work of Chinese film director Jia Zhangke constitutes an important commentary on the relationship between globalization, humanness, and China. It begins with a discussion of Jia's relationship to international art-house and documentary realism, focusing...

... Highway (2004), Luis Alberto Urrea’s documentary narrative account of a failed border-crossing expedition in 2001 that killed fourteen migrants. I read Urrea’s narrative reconstruction of this event, a case that remains the single worst migrant death-event in Arizona border history, as unconcealing...

... on a literary fiction by Joao Gilberto Noll and a documentary by Santiago León, the article argues that cultural representations of precarity produce a reflection on a new status of subjectivity vis a vis a redefined relation with the common. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Improper Selves Cultures...

..., interpellated by the TV cameras. These images are then transmitted into the living rooms of Brazilians through the nightly news, and repurposed—along with the street surveillance footage—into the documentary into what feels like a closed loop or circuit. Sandro was not simply invisible but living within...

... This use of an underinterpreted contrast between the punk and the queer recurs in other examples of the “frozen dialectic” between black and white. In the Academy Award–winning U.S. documentary, Scared Straight...

... most segments in the documentary film in which Poeuv's parents are seated (seemingly reluctantly) side by side for a standard talking-head-style interview, there are two scenes included in the final cut that were shot in their van as their family traveled about the country. Perhaps because...

... that the stakes are still more dear than implied by these debates. At Home in Jerusalem I will explain this further through a consideration of three documentaries that address...

..., the airwaves have become a critical theater in the political and social conflict of a divided nation. This study will concentrate on the politics of representation in con- temporary Venezuelan television news and documentary, which in its Social...

... of violence and global capital, the arts work in tourist discourse to rewrite the meaning of the DMZ. In 2010, the Korea Tourism Organization advertised a travel package called the I Love DMZ Documentary Train, a three-­day trip in which...

... was hers absence and his partial complex? Far less likely the grand mal type since horror makes itself known. Dear reader, how might two authors with differing epilepsies write? Make a documentary on postictal testimony. On bleeding George Washington to death as part of his treatment plan. Those...

..., in a moment of unabashed repose, in the ramshackle backstage area of the club. In its candor, partic- ularly in its display of her nudity and the paraphernalia of her trade, the photo recalls similar strategies in the subcultural documentary photog- raphy of Slava Mogutin, Nan Goldin, or Charles...

... documentaries must be protected from all “didactic intentions.” “If we demand of the artist or artistic work a ‘revolutionary’ message of the sort that a political speech or a philosophical or social essay should contain,” he elaborated, “we will only achieve one objective: the spiritual assassination...

..., and felt and by whom. 3 These men on no-man’s-land resisted their displacement by tracing multiple lines of transterritorial affiliation, self-assertion, and continuity. They did so both by mobilizing the documentary practices associated with international media coverage in ways that could reach...

... at this point needs little introduction: the museums, music retailers, bookstores, and documentary film channels groan under the weight of its archive. More challenging, at least to some, is the case for punk music as a continuing contributor to our political moment. Assuredly, a certain patina...

..., Internet development, video games, checkpoints, and cultural/ political spaces of resistance. She is also a photographer and documentary filmmaker. ...

...-­edited newscasts in Wang Wo’s 2010 documentary Zheteng. Courtesy of Wang Wo promotional films leading up to the Olympic Games, and made-­for-­DVD television events like the sixtieth anniversary of the PRC exemplify official interactions with the intermedial screen. Other widely exhibited...

... of Jamaica during the time of the fi lm’s production.7 The dominant role of documentary footage in the many extended, thematic sequences that accompany the fi lm’s songs directly unite historical experience and the cultural expression that emerges from it, and at least two of these—the “Many Rivers...