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An 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 Contents

Introduction: 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
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Political Camerawork

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    A Paperback / softback by David A. Rice

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 4 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9780253065926
      978-0253065926
      ISBN-10 0253065925
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      Documentary films Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      An 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 Contents

      Introduction: 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
      Filmography
      Bibliography
      Index

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