... stylizes it. In interviews, he even characterizes himself as ‘a director of landscape.’ This chapter explores the different functions of landscape in Herzog’s documentaries. The names of these functions—trance, parody, testimony, and allegory—serve as the categories that frame the analysis of individual...

... and to link labor organizing with critical practices elsewhere. She proposes a strong understanding of witnessing as a potentially perilous and necessary practice that binds the individual to a collective endeavor and standpoint. After discussing the genres of testimony and ethnography for what they tell us...

... permitted to speak at the hearing. They talked about their experiences and demanded a public hearing that would be devoted entirely to the expert testimony of women. abortion New York State Legislature Albert H. Blumenthal women Constance Cook abortion law feminists public hearing expert testimony...

... Malcolm Gladwell to its prominence in the congressional testimony of embattled FEMA director Michael Brown. The chapter argues that this notion discourages any definitive identification of agency, power, and accountability and calls for an approach to crisis that focuses on the political economy...

... on witness testimony, brutal humanism can only consolidate itself after the fact, making change in the present less conceivable. Fourth, brutal humanism formalizes the affective structures of charity. Finally, a politics based on stabilizing meaning in the image through the body presents long-term problems...

... technologies, whose mimetic capacities make claims of visible evidence and whose circuitry facilitates eyewitness testimony and witnessing at great distances. Challenging the notion that there is a seamless trajectory from observing an atrocity to acting in order to intervene, the book argues that having...

...This chapter examines some emergent forms of life writing that have recently gained prominence. These include the new-model national narrative; narratives of rights, testimony, incarceration, and reconciliation; embodiment stories of gender and sexuality, gastrography, and “conscious aging...

...This chapter reflects on two documentary films released during the Spanish Civil War, The Spanish Earth by Joris Ivens and Heart of Spain by Herbert Kline. These two films were fashioned both as an artistic testimony and political support for a struggle toward...