Description
Book SynopsisDocumentary scholars have long engaged with the responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for repurposing? This book surveys films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and theorizes the ethical implications.
Trade Review"While much has been written on the legal, economic and aesthetic aspects of the uses of archival and appropriated audiovisual media,
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is the first in-depth study of the ethical dimension of these practices. In the age of fake news, remix and the limitless manipulability of digital imagery,
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse brings together major questions and current debates around the ethical boundaries between revelation, distortion, and exploitation when original images and sounds are reworked and repurposed to create a 'layered gaze' of new meanings.
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is clearly written, well-argued and Baron’s astute readings of a wide range of recent film and media works show the complexities of the ethical and political stakes involved. This book will be of value to working filmmakers, artists and journalists and is essential reading in avant-garde, documentary film, and media studies, art history and journalism."— Jeffrey Skoller, author of Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
1 (Re)exposing Intimate Traces
2 Speaking through Others
3 Dislocating the Hegemonic Gaze
4 Reframing the Perpetrator’s Gaze
5 Abusing Images
Filmography
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
