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Critical Distance in Documentary Media

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Editors:
  1. Gerda Cammaer

    1. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

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  2. Blake Fitzpatrick

    1. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

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  3. Bruno Lessard

    1. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

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  • Offers new theoretical perspectives within the field of documentary studies

  • Expands the field of documentary studies and addresses mobile media, sound art, installation, and photography, among other neglected documentary media

  • Features international contributions from both established and emerging scholars

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Critically Distant

    • Gerda Cammaer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Bruno Lessard
    Pages 1-21

  3. Indexicality in the Age of the Sensor and Metadata

    • Craig Hight
    Pages 23-44

  4. Shot in the Dark: Nocturnal Philosophy and Night Photography

    • Bruno Lessard
    Pages 45-67

  5. Approaches to Xianchang: Documenting the Real in Post-socialist China

    • Madeline Eschenburg
    Pages 69-89

  6. Ai Weiwei: Grafting as a Documentary Tactic in Art

    • Luísa Santos
    Pages 91-107

  7. Unsatisfactory Devices: Legacy and the Undocumentable in Art

    • Angela Bartram
    Pages 109-128

  8. From Above: Critical Distance, Aerial Views, and Counter-Images

    • Blake Fitzpatrick
    Pages 129-148

  9. Phantom Rides as Images of the World Unfolding

    • Gerda Cammaer
    Pages 149-167

  10. Mobile Media: A Reliable Documentary Witness?

    • Anandana Kapur
    Pages 169-193

  11. Redefining the “Document”: Social-Media Photographs as Narrative, Performance, Habitude

    • Kris Belden-Adams
    Pages 195-208

  12. Instagram as Archive: Constructing Experimental Documentary Narratives from Everyday Moments

    • Patrick Kelly
    Pages 209-229

  13. That Seagull Stole My Camera (and My Shot)!: Overlapping Metaphorical and Physical Distances in the Human-Animal-Camera Triad

    • Concepción Cortés Zulueta
    Pages 231-256

  14. Re-placing the Urban Soundscape: Performative Documentary Research in Vancouver’s False Creek

    • Randolph Jordan
    Pages 257-277

  15. From Voice to Listening: Becoming Implicated Through Multi-linear Documentary

    • Kim Munro
    Pages 279-300

  16. From Critical Distance to Critical Intimacy: Interactive Documentary and Relational Media

    • Adrian Miles, Bruno Lessard, Hannah Brasier, Franziska Weidle
    Pages 301-319

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 321-336
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About this book

This collection of essays presents new formulations of ideas and practices within documentary media that respond critically to the multifaceted challenges of our age. As social media, augmented reality, and interactive technologies play an increasing role in the documentary landscape, new theorizations are needed to account for how such media both represents recent political, socio-historical, environmental, and representational shifts, and challenges the predominant approaches by promoting new critical sensibilities. The contributions to this volume approach the idea of “critical distance” in a documentary context and in subjects as diverse as documentary exhibitions, night photography, drone imagery, installation art, mobile media, nonhuman creative practices, sound art and interactive technologies. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners and students working in fields such as documentary studies, film studies, cultural studies, contemporary art history and digital media studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

    Gerda Cammaer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Bruno Lessard

About the editors

Gerda Cammaer is Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada, and is co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre. She is a filmmaker, the co-author of Forbidden Love (2016), and the co-editor of Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (2014).


Blake Fitzpatrick is Professor and Chair in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada, and is co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre. His research examines war and conflict representation in documentary works, and his visual work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally.

Bruno Lessard is Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada. He is a photographic artist and the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (2017).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Distance in Documentary Media

  • Editors: Gerda Cammaer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Bruno Lessard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96767-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96766-0Published: 08 November 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07247-6Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96767-7Published: 30 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 336

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Documentary, Digital/New Media

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