Evil, art and politics in documentary film: Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

Rens van Munster (Redaktør), Casper Sylvest (Redaktør)

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Abstract

Joshua Oppenheimer (b. 1974) is the director of several award-winning documentary films and Reader in Documentary Film and Artistic Director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster. From 2007 to 2011, he was senior researcher on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)’s Genocide and Genre project. For over a decade, he has worked with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. We sat down with him to talk about his Oscar-nominated film, The Act of Killing (2012), in which former Indonesian death-squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in their favorite cinematic genres, including film noir, westerns and musicals.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelDocumenting World Politics : A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film
RedaktørerRens van Munster, Casper Sylvest
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato2015
Sider201-212
Kapitel12
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-138-79778-9, 978-1-315-75688-9
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015
Udgivet eksterntJa
NavnPopular Culture and World Politics

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