scholarly journals Observational Secular: Religion and Documentary Film in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Kathryn Lofton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
The United States ◽  
Secular Religion

John Fante: The Passion That Became a Festival

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Giovanna DiLello
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Small Town ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
John Fante

The John Fante Festival “Il dio di mio padre” started in 2006 in Torricella Peligna, a small town in the Maiella mountains of Italy’s Abruzzo province, where John Fante’s father Nick Fante was born. After making a 2003 documentary film about John Fante, Giovanna Di Lello founded and still directs the festival, which is organized by the municipality. In this essay the author explains her passion for John Fante and how over the years the festival has become a reference point for Fante enthusiasts around the world, featuring numerous writers, musicians, artists, and scholars from Italy, the United States, and elsewhere who come to pay homage to Fante and his works through lectures, concerts, and readings.

scholarly journals The Discourse of the Absent Body

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The Body ◽  
Habeas Corpus ◽  
Grief Process ◽  
Lower Manhattan ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Disappeared

WITHOUT HABEAS CORPUS: THE DISCOURSE OF THE ABSENT BODY As the Twin Towers collapsed into a cloud of dust covering Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the corporal remains of several thousand people evaporated with them - cremated and scattered in a matter of seconds. Bodies vanished, nameless, and families were denied closure, a place to grieve. This event, unique in the history of the United States precipitated an equally unprecedented period of national mourning, unprecedented in its lack of finality. At memorial services throughout the nation, obviously dead victims were described as "missing" for lack of a better term. This tragedy recalls the lack of closure suffered by families of the "disappeared persons" of Chile and Argentina, who likewise have experienced an aborted grief process.(1) As Chilean human rights activist Marjorie Agosín has stated in Andrew Johnson's documentary film, Threads of Hope, the presence of the body in...

Entre oceanos e conhecimentos – o cinema documental na universidade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilmar Santana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic World ◽  
University Professors

Nowadays in several intellectual productions of the academic world in the fields of humanities, documentary film is an integral and simultaneous part of the processes and results of scientific research. Given the irreversibility of this fact, it is clear that dilemmas about its relevance still appear questioning its legitimacy as a tool, in itself, of knowledge. In this sense, from the testimony and reflection of five university professors who develop their research concomitantly with the imagery production in five different countries - Brazil, Cuba, the United States, England and Switzerland - this paper intends to debate how they present and articulate themselves: the presence of documentary cinema at university, its place as a producer and problematizer of knowledge, its support as a dialogical resource and its relevance as a sociological data in a world increasingly marked by the image as a vehicle of cultural practices.

scholarly journals „Social media muckraking” na przykładzie filmu dokumentalnego Tylko nie mów nikomu – charakterystyka i kierunki oddziaływania

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493
Author(s):  
Dominika Popielec
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Investigative Journalism

"Social Media Muckraking" on the Example of the Documentary Film Don't Tell Anyone - Characteristics and Directions of Impact In this paper the author has analyzed the phenomenon of investigative journalism in social media on the example of Tomasz Sekielski, which was defined by the author’s term “social media muckraking”. Muckraking, which dates back to the so-called “golden age of journalism” in the United States is one of the most ennobling terms for investigative journalism. The proposed term is the result of observing the increasingly popular practice of using social media in the work of an investigative re­porter also in the context of increasing publicity of the pedophile theme among priests, which was presented in the documentary film Do Not Tell Anyone. Therefore, social media content analysis and case study were used. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the activity of Tomasz Sekielski reflects the nature of the concept of “social media muckraking” which is one of the possibilities of practicing investigative journalism in the era of new technologies.

scholarly journals Visions of Aztlán: The Chicano Documentary Film

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-131
Author(s):  
David R. Maciel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chicano Movement ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Us ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

In the decade of the 1960s and 1970s, a trascendental social movement –which was known as the Chicano Movement for Civil Rights– took place in the United States. One of its major achievements was a cultural flowering that encompassed all the art forms and practices. Among them, one of single importance is the documentary film. This article presents an overview of the origins, first steps and current developments of the Chicana/o documentary cinema. Such films address a multitude of topics and combine highly artistic value with a definite political message. In addition, the Chicana/o documentary is an outstanding and highly informative mirror into Chicano experience. Since its inception to the present, over 100 documentaries have been produced and exhibited in the US, yet they have not been well-distributed in the Spanish-speaking world.

scholarly journals Bigger, Stronger, Faster, czyli amerykański sen nie jest dla każdego, a sport to jedno wielkie oszustwo

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Marcin Kępiński
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Sports Entertainment

The author analyses the 2009 documentary film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which investigates the nature of American pop culture and sports. Writing from the perspective of cultural anthropology and sociology, he considers how ideas about the body and physicality are programmed by popular media culture and famous sports figures and celebrities, who are treated as models of masculinity and mass media heroes. He also raises the issue of the influence of illegal pharmaceutical doping on contemporary American sports. All these subjects serve to describe the form and functioning of America’s contemporary collective identity and the connection between the authorities, television, sports entertainment, and politics. The United States described in the documentary is a real and existing utopia, which Americans and other people have dreamt and still dream about, and which everyone believes in—not only the recipients of popular media culture and sports entertainment.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

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