Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter REPRINT AVAILABLE
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Author: Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé (eds.)
This anthology explores the idea of documentary as encounter through essays, stories, interviews and other creative responses by filmmakers, artists, and writers. The texts engage with the risks of encounter, unsettling assumptions about the distinctions between host and guest; stranger and friend; self and other; documentarian and protagonist. Contributors include Jane Fawcett, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Toni Morrison and many more.Opening up a series of questions about the mystery of another person, whose difference and unknowability is already a part of one’s self, the anthology offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the convergences between encounter, hospitality and autobiography.with Khalik Allah, Ruth Beckermann, Jon Bang Carlsen, Adam Christensen, Annie Ernaux, Gareth Evans,Jane Fawcett, Xiaolu Guo,Umama Hamido,Therese Henningsen,Marc Isaacs,Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris, Juliette Joffé,Andrew and Eden Kötting, David MacDougall,Trinh T. Minh-ha,Toni Morrison,Bruno de Wachterand Andrea Luka Zimmerman
ISBN 9781913513306. Prototype Publishing. pb. 288 pages. 21 x 14.8 cm.
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This anthology explores the idea of documentary as encounter through essays, stories, interviews and other creative responses by filmmakers, artists, and writers. The texts engage with the risks of encounter, unsettling assumptions about the distinctions between host and guest; stranger and friend; self and other; documentarian and protagonist. Contributors include Jane Fawcett, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Toni Morrison and many more.Opening up a series of questions about the mystery of another person, whose difference and unknowability is already a part of one’s self, the anthology offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the convergences between encounter, hospitality and autobiography.with Khalik Allah, Ruth Beckermann, Jon Bang Carlsen, Adam Christensen, Annie Ernaux, Gareth Evans,Jane Fawcett, Xiaolu Guo,Umama Hamido,Therese Henningsen,Marc Isaacs,Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris, Juliette Joffé,Andrew and Eden Kötting, David MacDougall,Trinh T. Minh-ha,Toni Morrison,Bruno de Wachterand Andrea Luka Zimmerman
ISBN 9781913513306. Prototype Publishing. pb. 288 pages. 21 x 14.8 cm.
available