Untangling Fact, Fiction, Fantasy-and Outright Lies
Compilation Films as Archival Piracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4187948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale Hudson (0000-0003-3221-9114, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1051-1079 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2022.0065 |
| OpenAlex | W4317702959 |
| Language | EN |
Films compiled from archival footage unsettle assumptions about film and photography’s ability to capture truth—and the archive’s ability to contain it—through a critical practice of pirating. Sandhya Suri’s Around India with a Movie Camera, Rona Sela’s Looted and Hidden: Palestinian Archives in Israel, and Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection manipulate images from archives to expose the technical and institutional manipulations within colonial propaganda, posing questions about how and when visual evidence becomes truth, with implications for mobile phone eyewitness videos today—and also deepfakes in viral disinformation
Art · Art history · Disinformation · Fantasy · Literature · Media studies · Mobile phone · Photography · Political science · Shot (pellet) · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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