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American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

Ricciardelli, Lucia

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Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Film StudiesGeneral ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138548375
ISBN13: 9781138548374
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 5 2018
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess the impact of new visual technologies on the construction of history. This book investigates the manner in which this contemporary Western crisis in historical narrative is produced by a larger epistemological shift in visual culture. Ricciardelli uses the theme of war as depicted in these directors' films to focus her study and look at the model(s) of national identity that Burns, Morris, and Moore shape through their depictions of US military actions. She examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative structure of documentary film and the shaping of historical consciousness through cinematic representation.

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