Activating the future: political documentaries and media activism.(art & activism)

SHARON LIN TAY is Lecturer in Film Studies at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom, where she teaches film theory, world cinema, and digital culture.

NOTES

1. Linda Williams, "Mirrors Without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary," Film Quarterly 46.3 (Spring 1993), 10.

2. Ibid., 12.

3. Jane M. Gaines, "Political Mimesis," in Collecting Visible Evidence, Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov, eds., (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 86, 100.

4. Ibid., 90.

5. Within the U.S. context, the alliance between the grassroots activist Web site moveon.org and Robert Greemoald's documentary filmmaking practice is worth noting.

6. Ibid., 59.

7. Williams, 15.

8. Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 1989), 142-49.

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See www.vsw.org/afterimage for a list of political documentaries.

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