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Ryan Watson deposited Introduction: radical documentary today in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film I co-edited with Sarah Hamblin on “Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media”
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Ryan Watson deposited Introduction: radical documentary today in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film I co-edited with Sarah Hamblin on “Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media”
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Ryan Watson deposited Introduction: radical documentary today on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
The introduction to a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film I co-edited with Sarah Hamblin on “Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media”
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Ryan Watson posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Thanks, Frank! I’ll take a look.
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Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]
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Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the Rodney King tape, namely, it’s transformation of the concerns of the field of documentary studies in the turn toward “visible evidence” in the 1990s. This turn privileged the power of visibility, particularly in radical and activist practices, but visibility is a fraught concept for m…[Read more]
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Hi, Ryan! If you’re not familiar with it, you might be interested in my long-ago book chapter on the Rodney King videotape, which is accessible here on Humanities Commons: “‘I’ll See It When I Believe It’: Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video,” The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event, edited by Vivian Sobchack…[Read more]
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Thanks, Frank! I’ll take a look.
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Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]
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Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the Rodney King tape, namely, it’s transformation of the concerns of the field of documentary studies in the turn toward “visible evidence” in the 1990s. This turn privileged the power of visibility, particularly in radical and activist practices, but visibility is a fraught concept for m…[Read more]
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