A Companion to Documentary History

Documentary Borders and Geographies Theme Editor, Alice Lovejoy (U. Minnesota, alovejoy@umn.edu) Contributors: 1. Martin Johnson (Catholic University, johnsonml@cua.edu), "A Distant Local View: The Small Town Film and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Occupation, 1942-1952" 2. Paul Fileri (NYU, paul.fileri@gmail.com) "The Work of Displacement in Colonial Documentary: History, Movement, and Collectivity Between the Postwar Metropole and Colonial French West Africa" 3. Naoki Yamamoto (UC-Santa-Barbara, yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu), "Negation of the Negation: Tracking Documentary Film Theory in Japan" 4. Raisa Sidenova (Newcastle University, raisa.sidenova@gmail.com), "The Topographical Aesthetic in Late Stalinist Documentary Film" Authors and Authoring Agencies Theme Editor, James Cahill (U. Toronto, james.cahill@utoronto.ca) Contributors: 1. Zoe Druick, (Simon Fraser U, druick@sfu.ca) "Documentality: The Postwar Mental Health Film and the Database Logic of the Government Film Agency" 2. Josh Neves (Concordia U/Brown, jwneves@gmail.com) "Unmanned Capture: Automatic Cameras and Lifeless Subjects in Contemporary Documentary" 3. Brian Jacobson (U. of Toronto, brian.jacobson@utoronto.ca) "Corporate Authorship: French Industrial Culture and the Culture of French Industry" 4. Alla Gadassic (Emily Carr U, alla.gadassik@gmail.com), "A Skillful Isis: Esfir Shub and the Documentarian as Caretaker" 5. Philip Rosen (Brown, philip_rosen@brown.edu), "Now and Then: On the Documentary Regime, Vertov, and History" Films and Film Movements Theme Editor, Joshua Malitsky (Indiana U., jmalitsk@indiana.edu) Contributors: 1. Jane Gaines (Columbia, jmg2196@columbia.edu) "Documentary Dreams of Activism and the 'Arab Spring'" 2. Luca Caminati (Concordia, caminati.luca@gmail.com) "A Culture of Reality: Neorealism, Narrative Non-Fiction, and Roberto Rossellini (1930s/1960s)" and translation of Alberto Cavalcanti, "Propaganda Documentaries" 3. Thomas Waugh (Thomas.waugh@concordia.ca) "The Romantic Becomes Dialectic?: Joris Ivens, Cold Warrior and Socialist Realist, 1946-1956" Media Archaeologies Theme Editor, Malte Hagener (Marburg University, hagener@uni-marburg.de) Contributors: 1. Steven Jacobs, (Ghent University, steven.jacobs@ugent.be) "A Concise History and Theory of Documentaries on the Visual Arts" 2. Weihang Bao (UC-Berkeley, wbaoster@berkeley.edu) "Documentary in the Age of Mass Mobility: Minzu wansui and the Epic Gesture of Ethnographic Propaganda" 3. Oliver Gaycken (U Maryland, ogaycken@umd.edu), "Documentary Plasticity: Embryology and the Moving Image" 4. Yvonne Zimmermann (Marburg, University, yvonne.zimmerman@uni-marburg.edu), "Hans Richter and the Filmessay: A Media Archaeological Case Study of Documentary Film History and Historiography" Audiences and Circulation Theme Editor, Brian Winston (Lincoln U., bwinston@lincoln.ac.uk) Contributors: 1. Greg Waller (Indiana University, gwaller@indiana.edu) "Non-Fiction Film in and out of the Moving Picture Theater: Roosevelt in Africa (1910)" 2. Brian Winston (Lincoln U, bwinston@lincoln.ac.uk), "The Marginal Spectator" 3. Mariano Mestman, (Universidad de Buenos Aires,marianomestman@gmail.com), "'Every spectator is either a coward or a traitor': Watching The Hour of the Furnaces" 4. William Uricchio (MIT, uricchio@mit.edu), "From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine: The Nature of the Audience and the Persistence of Wishful Thinking"