Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image
Patrick Brian Smith
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ISBN: 978-1-839541-78-0 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-839541-79-7 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839541-80-3 (JSTOR ebook) State and corporate violence has always been waged on material space. However, with the escalation of late-capitalist and neocolonial modes of extraction, incarceration, and bordering, these processes of spatial exploitation are accelerating and morphing. In this eloquent and wide-ranging study, Patrick Brian Smith examines how the documentary image is responding—aesthetically, discursively, and politically—to these transformations in spatial violence. Forging connections between a geographically disparate set of documentary works, Smith argues that over the past two decades we have seen an increasing number of experimental documentary works that are structured around radical interrogations of the spatial. How is it that a concentrated, durational, and temporal focus on diverse political spaces and sites of contestation and conflict helps to reveal the layers of spatial violence, exploitation, and injustice embedded within them? Patrick Brian Smith is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick.
Bibliography entry: Smith, Patrick Brian, Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image, Moving Image, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2024) First footnote reference: 35 Patrick Brian Smith, Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image, Moving Image, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2024), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Smith, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Smith, Patrick Brian. 2024. Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image, Moving Image, 15 (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Smith 2024: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Smith 2024: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Spatial-Violence-Documentary-Image www.mhra.org.uk/publications/mi-15 |
February 2024