LEADER 02978cam a2200361 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20231009172354.0 008 210811s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2021023335 020 9780231195973 |q(trade paperback) 020 9780231195966 |q(hardback) 020 |z9780231551571 |q(ebook) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 050 00 PN1995.9.D6 |bC74 2021 082 00 070.1/8 |223 100 1 Cuevas, Efrén, |eauthor. 245 10 Filming history from below : |bmicrohistorical documentaries / |cEfrén Cuevas. 260 New York : |bWallflower ; |bColumbia University Press, |c2022. 300 viii, 290 p. : |bill. ; |c23 cm. 490 0 Nonfictions 504 Includes bibliography (p. [263]-276) and index (p. [277]-290). 520 "Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and personalities. In recent decades, in line with historiographical trends advocating "history from below," a different type of historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as "microhistorical documentaries" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions. Cuevas pinpoints the key features of these documentaries, identifying their parallels with written microhistory: a reduced scale of observation, a central role given to human agency, a conjectural approach to the use of archival sources, and a reliance on narrative structures. Microhistorical documentaries also use tools specific to film to underscore the affective dimension of historical narratives, often incorporating autobiographical and essayistic perspectives, and highlighting the role of the protagonists' personal memories in the reconstruction of the past. These films generally draw from family archives, with an emphasis on snapshots and home movies. Filming History from Below examines works including Péter Forgács's films dealing with the Holocaust such as The Maelstrom and Free Fall; documentaries about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Rithy Panh's work on the Cambodian genocide; films about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War such as A Family Gathering and History and Memory; and Jonas Mekas's chronicle of migration in his diary film Lost, Lost, Lost"-- 650 0 Documentary films |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 History in motion pictures. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6070_100000000000000_8_CUE |70 |8REF |9163165OSA |bOSA |d2023-09-26 |eOSA |l0 |o070.1/8 CUE |r2023-09-26 |w2023-09-26 |yBK |cReference 920 01 4X74gGY2 992 01 070_100000000000000_8_CUE |bZSZ_YZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_R_N5L 966 |cIn the Research Room