The Ethics of Documentary Film
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3485-7 (ISBN)
Documentary film has been an important vehicle to interrogate the world since the inception of film more than a hundred years ago. The Ethics of Documentary Film reformulate some of the foundational notions in documentary films studies and practice, relating to archive and the production of knowledge. Published in a particular moment in time, post pandemic and in the middle of the climate change debates and the traumas of new conflicts in the world, it gives voice to all of the important contemporary debates and offers ideas about different international approaches to documentary. With particular focus on the question of to what extent a documentary film can be defined as an ethical project, the various contributions look at issues of history, the hidden stories, and issues of the ethics of representation to provide new insights into the role documentary film can play within society.
Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award-winning international creative practice researcher, educator, psychologist and filmmaker known for her dedication to inclusivity. Based in the UK, Professor Piotrowska has presented her work internationally, inspiring others through cross-cultural collaboration. She is a member of the General Council of the Visible Evidence, the most important global network for documentary studies. Formerly Head of the School of Film, Media and Performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts, she currently supervises PhD students at Staffordshire and Oxford Brookes Universities. From 2018 to 2024, she was Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Gdansk, directing the Visible Evidence conference there. She has given keynotes internationally, focusing on the links between theory and practice. Her acclaimed documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower and her new award-winning experimental film work in Zimbabwe have received global recognition. Professor Piotrowska’s extensive publications on psychoanalysis, culture and cinema include Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2014, 2023) Black and White: Cinema, Politics, and the Arts in Zimbabwe (2017) and the monograph The Nasty Woman in Cinema and Culture (2019), as well as four edited collections.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I. Ethics and Gender
1. Khady Sylla’s scenes of solidarity, Laura McMahon
2. Mediating the ‘I’: hauntings and the imagined witness, Jill Daniels
3. Agnès Varda: The Ethics of Discretion, Agnieszka Piotrowska
4. Documentary a Feminist gesture in Post-colonial Zimbabwe, Charmaine Dambuza
5. A Camera of One’s Own – domestic spaces and autobiographical documentaries, Patricia Nogueira
Part II. Ethics and Participation
6. Polyphonic Communities: New Methods for Documentary Ethics, Dale Hudson, Claudia Costa Pederson, and Patricia R. Zimmermann
7. Documenting Dalit Women— Their Journey from Tyrannies to Triumphs, Priyanka Singh
8. The Missing documentary filmmaking ethics in India, Narendra Kaushik
9. The Challenge of Establishing and Maintaining Ethical Norms in U.S. Documentary Production, Patricia Aufderheide
10. Exploitation and documentary contributors, Emily Coleman
11. Responsibility of representation – ethics of transcultural filmmaking practices, Agata Lulkowska
Part III. Ethics and History
12. Beyond Image: Ethical Sensitivity in Baltic New Wave Documentaries, Teisi Ligi
13. Ethics and Images of History in Documentary Film, Elizabeth Cowie
14. The Redemptive Power of Art: traumatic memory, generational art, and women’s documentary, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
15. Censorship, Anti-censorship, and Independent Documentaries in China, Sabrina Qiong Yu
Part IV. Ethics and Future Technologies
16. Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography (2021) and the Route Towards an Environmentally Ethical Eco-Documentary, Cristina Formenti
17. Artificial Intelligence in documentary filmmaking: the ethics of deepfakes, Dominic Lees
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3485-8 / 1399534858 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3485-7 / 9781399534857 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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