: Middletown: The Making of a Documentary Film Series . Dwight W. Hoover.

1993 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-466
Author(s):  
David W. Plath
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Series

The iAnimal Film Series

Screen Bodies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Holly Cecil
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Film Series

This article explores the innovative use of virtual reality (VR) technology in nonfiction documentary film formats by animal-advocacy organizations. I examine the potential of the VR medium to communicate the living and dying environments of factory-farmed animals, and to generate viewer empathy with the animal subjects in their short, commodified lives from birth to slaughterhouse. I present a case study of the iAnimal short film series produced by Animal Equality, which made its public debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Employing a critical animal studies framework, I engage Kathryn Gillespie’s work on witnessing of the nonhuman condition as a method of academic research, and apply to it the embodied experience of virtual witnessing through virtual realty.

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

Screen Bodies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
Film Series ◽  
The Way

The six essays in this in this issue of Screen Bodies explore what we might call the affective modalities of media, that is, each author examines the potential of emerging and traditional media to transform individual and collective relations through the strategic use of embodied affective experience. Three essays in the issue focus on new and emerging technology. In, “The iAnimal Film Series: Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality,” Holly Cecil examines the potential power of virtual reality to generate empathy in users. In particular, she looks at the way animal advocacy organizations combine documentary film and virtual reality to communicate the embodied experience of living and dying in a factory farm to provoke feeling and widespread opposition to the industry.

scholarly journals “I Always Wanted to Look at Another Human and Say I Can See That Human in Me”: Understanding Genealogical Bewilderment in the Context of Racialised Intercountry Adoptees

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravinder Barn ◽  
Nushra Mansuri
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
International Adoption ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Adult Adoptees ◽  
Ancestral Knowledge ◽  
Film Series ◽  
Shed Light

Although there is growing literature on the situation of international adoption, there is a general paucity of research into the salience of the concept of genealogical bewilderment (GB) and racialised adult adoptees’ experiences of searching for their transnational birth families. This paper seeks to explore the relevance of the much under-studied concept of GB in relation to intercountry adoption. Through a detailed analysis of a documentary film series—Searching for Mum—that serves as an empirical example to develop the concept of GB, this paper utilises four case studies involving adult adoptees to shed light on a number of key concerns, including motivations for genealogy search, belonging, identity, body image/mirror image, and ancestral knowledge. The paper argues that even supposedly well-adjusted adoptees may desire to search for their genealogy and heredity. Moreover, such searches may indicate a quest for belonging and identity in a world where biological ties and processes of racialisation are equated with such phenomena.

A Documentary Film Series: The Stories of Tuktu

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Jon C. Stott
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Series

scholarly journals الفيلم الوثائقي ودوره في الترويج للسياحة في السودان

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
د. المعز حمودة علي حمودة
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Film Series

This study explored the extent of documentary films’ effectiveness in introducing and promoting tourism in Sudan in which the film series Ard-AlSomur was taken as a case study. The basic premise was that documentary films which promoted tourism in Sudan had not been subjected toexistening professional and technical standards in television production process; many questions were presented, however, the most important of which was the extent thatArd-AlSomur series’ had contributedto promoting and guiding tourists to sites and tourism landmarks in Sudan. The descriptive and case study approach was used for which a questionnaire and an interview were adopted as data collection tools. The study was divided into three sections:  the first tackled the documentary film; the second was on tourism and media; and the third covered the field study’s procedures. A number of findings were reached, the most important of which are that: The Ard-alsumor films series have significantly contributed to the promotion of tourism in Sudan and that there are production weaknesses in documentaries that promote tourism in Sudan incompatible with theprofessional and artistic standards. Accordingly, the researcher recommends the conduction of more research to develop the area of documentary film industry in Sudan and to encourage investment in the media by engaging in the production of documentary films that promote tourism.

The Kenya Boran: Appraisals of a Documentary Film Series

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Rodger Yeager ◽  
Harold G. Marcus ◽  
Michael J. Vavrus ◽  
Charles G. Eberly ◽  
Leo Spitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Series

Operational Stress and PTSD in Emergency Services Personnel - A Documentary Film

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Velakoulis ◽  
Tony McHugh ◽  
Jane Nursey ◽  
Malcom Hopwood
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Operational Stress ◽  
Emergency Services Personnel

Why A Doc With a Dip Doc?

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Catherine Morley
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Research Findings

In 2007, when I began studies toward two diplomas, one in textile arts, and one in documentary film this seeming ‘change of focus’ prompted questions from dietetics and research colleagues: Was I changing careers? What did visual arts and film have to do with dietetics and research? In addition to personal reasons for these studies, I wanted ‘time out’ from consulting and research to develop my knowledge and skills in these artforms, and to explore them as means to broaden the reach of research findings. In this article, I discuss the potential for film and visual arts in dietetics practice and education. Arts-based inquiry and practice offer ways to disrupt power differentials, to question what counts as knowledge and whose/what voices ought to count, to invite reflections on and conversations about meanings imbedded in food and in eating behaviour, and to integrate this knowledge into collaborative, client-centred approaches to nutrition education.

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

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