Performative documentary, artistic research, and emancipatory pedagogy

Abstract

Teaching Documentary spans a broad field of approaches and specifications within a genre that has been in constant change and development throughout its history. Documentary film is an art form and a practice, although often received or interpreted as a journalistic form of documenting an actual event happening now and acting like a mirror or snapshot. But documentaries are so much more, as you can perceive from the broad approach presented in this edition. The book is a result of submissions following Calls for Contributions throughout and beyond CILECT, followed by editorial collaboration with the authors. The submitted chapters or case studies presented here provide valuable insight into their teaching, pedagogical practice and concepts, as well as regional-specific production contexts, traditions and more. The contributors to this collection are scholars and documentary makers who imagine what forms documentary teaching may take in the twenty-first century. They approach the topic of effective documentary pedagogy from various levels of experience and perspectives, and from many different parts of the world.