{"product_id":"documentary-across-platforms-reverse-engineering-media-place-and-politics-hardback-9780253043467","title":"Documentary Across Platforms; Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (Hardback) 9780253043467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia R. Zimmermann (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253043467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.621 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Zimmermann has been at the forefront of the development of contemporary documentary studies. From the time of her first intervention (on the previously unremarked significance of amateur film) she has continued to make contributions noted for their scope and originality. Zimmermann has the enviable ability to always be at the cutting edge but never to be faddist.\"—Brian Winston, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Documentary Film Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Zimmermann's anthology envisions documentary as a set of practices that investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. This collection of essays, a culmination of her scholarship over the past twenty years, is a testament to her groundbreaking work and contribution to the field of documentary studies.\"—The 2019-2020 Park School Faculty Writing Award\u003cbr\u003e \"Patricia Zimmermannn's \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e casts a wide net, capturing media ecologies as varied as museum installations, film festival showings, photography, and multiple varieties of internet sharing. . . . Her book is bound to create new paths for exploration and to open up a new awareness of the richness and complexity of the global media landscape.\"—Inez Hedges, \u003ci\u003eJump Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Exploring a wonderfully diverse range of documentary projects that includes installation pieces, archives, still photography, community-based collaborative media, experimental shorts and video art, the essays analyze how work is done, by whom, for whom, to what end, and why these questions matter.\"—Richard Shpuntoff, \u003ci\u003eDocumentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Patricia Zimmermann's book \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms\u003c\/i\u003e provides a knowledgeable insight into the ever-evolving practices beyond conventional non-fiction cinema. It is an important contribution to contemporary documentary studies and also a must-read for all filmmakers and audiences who consider the genre a conceptual practice to think about themselves and the world – how it is and how it might be.\"—Melita Zajc, \u003ci\u003eModern Times Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Zimmermann's invitations to reassess and engage in her own work have taken several forms over the past twenty-five years. They include essays for journals or exhibition catalogs, books, magazine articles, public presentations, handouts for public screenings, and postulates to arouse further conversation. They incorporate personal accounts, deep dives into the archival record, theoretical musings, and the occasional call to arms. Now one can read a thematically arranged selection of this remarkable career in a new collection.\"—Melissa Dollman, \u003ci\u003eThe Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Patricia R. Zimmerman's \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and diverse compendium of texts spanning decades and covering a myriad of topics related to the expanded nature of documentary platforms. . . . \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering, Media, Place and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital textual resource for confronting the many changes that have taken place in writing about documentary and practicing documentary that has evolved into such new areas of scholarship in recent years. To remain abreast of these advances is important. It means keeping in touch with an ever-evolving world, something that Zimmerman is well able to do. Here's hoping she can keep doing it well into the future.\"—Dara Waldron, \u003ci\u003eAlphaville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Patricia R. Zimmerman's \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and diverse compendium of texts spanning decades and covering a myriad of topics related to the expanded nature of documentary platforms. Zimmerman, best known for her pioneering scholarship in the area of home movies (considered as a subset of the documentary film), demonstrates a real intellectual zest when moving across the terrain of documentary film practices and their extension into certain areas of contemporary art.\"—Dara Waldron, \u003ci\u003ealphaville \/ Journal of Film and Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Across Platforms\u003c\/i\u003e, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving constellation of practices known as \"documentary\" and the way in which they investigate, engage with, and interrogate the world. Collected here for the first time are her celebrated essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new media published outside of traditional scholarly venues. These essays envision documentary as a complex ecology composed of different technologies, sets of practices, and specific relationships to communities, engagement, politics, and social struggles. Through the lens of reverse engineering—the concept that ideas just like objects can be disassembled to learn how they work and then rebuilt into something new and better—Zimmermann explores how numerous small-scale documentary works present strategies of intervention into existing power structures. Adaptive to their context, modular, and unfixed, the documentary practices she explores exploit both sophisticated high-end professional and consumer-grade amateur technologies, moving through different political terrains, different platforms, and different exhibition contexts. Together these essays demonstrate documentary's role as a conceptual practice to think through how the world is organized and to imagine ways that it might be reorganized with actions, communities, and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \/ Gina Marchetti\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Documentary Across Platforms\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Platforms\u003cbr\u003e 1. Reverse Engineering: Taking Things Apart for the New Global Media Ecology\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ardent Spaces, Formidable Environments\u003cbr\u003e 3. Precious Places, Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling: The Works of Daniel Reeves\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cartographies of Impossible and Possible Worlds: The Photography of Michael Kienitz\u003cbr\u003e 6. Black Soil: \u003ci\u003eChernozem\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTusit \u003c\/i\u003ein Ukraine\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Reversals\u003cbr\u003e 7. Matrices of War\u003cbr\u003e 8. Blasting War\u003cbr\u003e 9. Digital Deployments\u003cbr\u003e 10. Public Domains: Engaging Iraq through Experimental Digitalities\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cambodian Digital Imaginary Archive: Genocide, Lara Croft, and Crafts\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Histories\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Home Movie Archive Live\u003cbr\u003e 13. Throbs and Pulsations: Les LeVeque and the Digitizing of Desire\u003cbr\u003e 14. Just Say No: Negativland's \u003ci\u003eNo Business\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Remixed and Revisited Black Cinema: Oscar Micheaux's \u003ci\u003eWithin Our Gates\u003c\/i\u003e Live Project\u003cbr\u003e 16. Live!: Reconnecting the Histories of Live Multimedia Performance\u003cbr\u003e 17. Toward a Theory of Participatory New Media Documentary\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Speculative Engineering\u003cbr\u003e 18. Home Movie Axioms\u003cbr\u003e 19. Speculations on Environmental Sensualities and Eco-Documentaries\u003cbr\u003e 20. Speculations on Reverse Engineering: Algorithms for Recombinant Documentaries Across Platforms\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525279871256,"sku":"9780253043467","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/documentary-across-platforms-reverse-engineering-media-place-and-politics-hardback-9780253043467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}