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Teaching cross-cultural documentary filmmaking in China: navigating a parallel universe
This conversation between two documentary film educators in China, one born in China and one born in the U.S., explores how the different definitions...
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The flight of Icarus: on the geopolitical resonances of documentary film
This paper considers how documentary films have the potential to influence geopolitics. Develo** the concept of geopolitical resonances—defined...
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Looking at China from Abroad: intermediality as a tool for documentary
In 2020, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, travel to China and around the world was mostly suspended. In the face of such restrictions, the ‘Looking...
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Looking China Youth film project: untold stories a small handbook on documentary or how to shooting successfully in unknown circumstances
Theoretical and practical work in the education of students of film and television directing are important and somehow go hand in hand. The choice of...
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Sociological Film: A Medium to Promote Sociological Imagination
This paper examines the idea of sociological film that encourages sociological imagination, which refers to the capability to recognize the...
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Communication and inheritance: the narrative logic of integration in the documentary “The New Biography of Intangible Cultural Heritage” from the perspective of communication
Intangible cultural heritage is a crucial component of human civilization's diversity, encapsulating the accumulation of human wisdom and valuable...
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Alison Elwood (Director). (2020). The Women of Troy [Online]. USA: HBO Documentary. 58 min
This film review dives into the HBO documentary highlighting the 1980s women's basetball team at the University of Southern California. It discussed...
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Documentary Films in the Age of New Populism
The essay provides an in-depth understanding of how documentaries have impacted and reacted to the rise of populism in the twenty-first century....
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Enhancing the international appeal of Chinese culture through the looking China Youth Film Project: a cese study at Sanxingdui
Looking China Youth Film Project, founded in 2011 by Mrs. Huang Huilin, a senior professor at Bei**g Normal University, aims to complete a 10-min...
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Bearing witness through pandemic borders and film: convergent media, mobility and Windrush Betrayal
This paper examines the role of convergent media and the film, Windrush Betrayal (2020), in representing and challenging borders, mobilities and UK...
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A Phenomenological Approach to Film Sound and Film at the Basis of Film-Making
This chapter elaborates on the presented phenomenological approach to film sound and film at the basis of film-making. This chapter closes with case...
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Showing the Invisible in the Sociological Documentary
Cinema, like all the arts, aims to show the invisible, in the sense that they are all interpretations thwarting the projects of the proponents of...
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Migrant Women’s Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity Across Borders in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors
This chapter investigates the materialities of transnational filmmaking and the shifting boundaries of gender, mobility, and subjectivity in migrant...
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Doing film geography
Film geography as a subdiscipline of cultural and media geography is a long-established field of research that since its emergence more than twenty...
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Filmic Sociology Theory and Practice
This book is an exploration of the intellectual resources offered by the hybridisation of sociology and cinema: practicing sociology, or other human...
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The imagery of “Chinatown” in Film
Chinatown has formed different constructions, imaginations, and representations of Chinatown imagery in different films as a narrative space, visual...
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From Ethnologist Photography to Filmic Sociology
All historians of cinema have recognized the social dimension of documentary cinema. Its similarity to and distinction from the sociological...
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Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking
The so-called European ‘refugee crisis’ has bred a profusion of audiovisual accounts throughout the region, many of which aimed to give voice to...