Documentary and Space New issue of MEDIA FIELDS JOURNAL

Framegrab from El Valley Centro (James Benning, 2000). Read Elizabeth Cowies article on Documentary Space, Place, and Landscape which discusses Bennings film, among others. Cowie is author of the new book Recording Reality, Desiring the Real (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Film Studies For Free brings you openly accessible brilliance from the latest issue of Media Fields Journal. Its a really excellent issue on documentary and space - a must-read. And however hyperbolically positive (the always hyperbolically positive) FSFF is, it doesnt always say that. So, do yourselves a big favour and click on the below links without further ado.

• Ryan Bowles and Rahul Mukherjee, Documentary and Space: Introduction, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Alexandra Juhasz, A Place in the Online Feminist Documentary Cyber-closet, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Jason Alley, Spaces of Reticence, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Laura Rascaroli, Sonic Interstices: Essayistic Voiceover and Spectatorial Space in Robert Cambrinus’s Commentary (2009), Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Elizabeth Cowie, Documentary Space, Place, and Landscape, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• André Jansson and Erik Gandini, Gitmo Space: A Dialogue about Mediatized Warfare, Documentary Filmmaking and Heterotopic Truth, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Nonny de la Peña, Physical World News In Virtual Spaces: Representation and Embodiment in Immersive Nonfiction, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Brett Lashua, Popular Music Memoryscapes of Liverpool 8, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Erica Stein, The Road to Heaven Twists: The City, Urban Planning, and Experiential Space, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Christina Corfield, Flexible by Nature: Video and the Cultural Production of Concrete Fact, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Dan Fleming, The Staging of Affect and the “Elsewhens” of Documentary Space, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Sukanya Sen, Encountering Space: Documenting the Topography of the Migrant Home, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Maggie Hennefeld, The Geopolitics of Narrative Parody in Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Mapping Documentary: Roundtable with Filmmaker Ido Haar and Film and Media Studies Scholar Janet Walker in Conversation with David Gray and Jade Petermon, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Renée Rhodes, Moving Makes a Map, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

• Bernadette Flynn, Spatial Praxis in the Staging of Material Evidence, Media Fields Journal, Issue 3, 2011

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