Zimmermann, Patricia R.

Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics

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ISBN 13:: 9780253043474
author:: Zimmermann, Patricia R.
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Indiana University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2019
Pages:: 296
Dimensions:: 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres
Genre:: Arts & Photography, Performing Arts, Film & Video,
Condition:: New
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Documentary Across Platforms explores the evolving nature of documentary as a complex ecology of technologies, practices, and relationships to communities, politics, and social struggles. This collection of essays by Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a unique perspective on how small-scale documentary works intervene in existing power structures through adaptive, modular, and unfixed strategies. Zimmermann examines how documentary practices exploit both high-end professional and consumer-grade amateur technologies to move through different political terrains, platforms, and exhibition contexts. By reverse engineering the concept of ideas as objects, she reveals the ways in which documentary can be used to think critically about the world and imagine alternative forms of organization. Through its exploration of documentary's conceptual practice, this book demonstrates its role in challenging existing power structures and imagining new possibilities for action, community, and idea.

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