Evil, art and politics in documentary film: Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer
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Evil, art and politics in documentary film : Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer. / van Munster, Rens (Editor); Sylvest, Casper (Editor).
Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film. ed. / Rens van Munster; Casper Sylvest. London : Routledge, 2015. p. 201-212 (Popular Culture and World Politics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Evil, art and politics in documentary film
T2 - Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer
A2 - van Munster, Rens
A2 - Sylvest, Casper
A2 - van Munster, Rens
A2 - Sylvest, Casper
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.4324/9781315756899-21
DO - 10.4324/9781315756899-21
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-1-138-79778-9
SN - 978-1-315-75688-9
T3 - Popular Culture and World Politics
SP - 201
EP - 212
BT - Documenting World Politics
PB - Routledge
CY - London
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