Description
Book SynopsisBased on work the author has carried out with survivor groups in Northern Ireland and South Africa,
Recording Memories from Political Violence draws on written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyze the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. A variety of issues relevant to the genre are addressed at length, including the importance of ethics in the collaboration between the filmmaker and the participant and the effect of location on the accounts of participants. Cahal McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies, as well as nearly twenty years of production experience, in this informed and instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and post-conflict studies.
Trade ReviewA book about memory, trust, and an invaluable historical recording. It would be a disservice ... if the memories and voices in these films didn’t attract as wide an audience as possible.
-- Jenny Meegan and Philip O’Sullivan, Irish Studies Review
A good example of how research and practice can walk hand in hand. ... Very well written.
-- Laura Santos Lopes de Aguiar, Crime, Media and Culture
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Raising Heads above the Parapet: Research Questions, Context and Methodologies
Chapter 2: Telling Our Story: The Springhill Massacre
Chapter 3: A Prisoner’s Journey: Educational Filmmaking
Chapter 4: We Never Give Up: Reparations in South Africa
Chapter 5: Inside Stories: Memories from The Maze and Long Kesh Prison
Chapter 6: Inside Stories: Insider Outsider Perspectives
Chapter 7: Prisons Memory Archive
Chapter 8: Unheard Voices
Conclusion
