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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn innovative contribution to media studies that explores the embodied experiences of both performers and camerapersons filming war reenactments, military training simulations, and an annual lynching reenactment.
-- Wendy Kozol, author of Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reflecting on "Moments of Truth"
1. Being There Again: Reenacting Camerawork in In Country (2014)
2. Weaponizing Affect: A Film Phenomenology of 3D Military Training Simulations During the Iraq War
3. 'Do You Want to Play a Klansman?': Lynching Photography, Civil Rights Camerawork, and the Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment in Georgia
4. Establishing a Black Affective Infrastructure: From Lynching Performance in the Hollywood of the South to Always in Season (2019)
Conclusion: Toward an Embodied Social Cinema, or From Point of View to Social Sense
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