A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995), Women of Vision (2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth s Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005), and Learning from YouTube (2011). Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010), as well as many real documentaries. Alisa Lebow is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications include First Person Jewish (2008) and The Cinema of Me (2012) and numerous articles on aspects of documentary ranging from art and documentary to questions of the political in documentary. Lebow has also made several documentaries including Outlaw (1994), Treyf (1998), and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2006).

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