H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2024

PERPREP · Representing Perpetration in Documentaries on Genocide

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-13 → 2024-09-12
Финансиране от ЕС: 328 968 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Документалните филми за геноциди от 20-ти век анализират как са представени извършителите на престъпленията. Това помага да се разбере социално-политическото влияние на тези продукции и как те формират общественото възприятие за масовите зверства.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Representing Perpetration in Documentaries on Genocide

Documentaries play a significant role in shaping public understandings of genocide and are the most common film genre on the subject. Yet, film scholarship has typically taken a narrow approach to depictions of genocide, reading atrocities separately, analysing only a small subset of often well-known films, focusing on the depiction of victims only, and paying little attention to the production context. By contrast, my project is a wide-ranging comparative study that analyses how numerous genocides and their perpetrators have been presented in documentary film. Spanning seven 20th-century genocides across three continents and combining interviews with filmmakers, distant reading methods, content analysis, and historical research, my project tracks the multifaceted representational strategies of over 200 films, addressing both the local and global contexts impacting their production. I highlight and critique dominant trends in documentary representation, proposing a broader and methodologically innovative approach to studying the depiction of atrocities that provides an encompassing framework for understanding genocide documentaries and their discursive and socio-political impact.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

I intend to investigate the representation of genocidal perpetrators in documentaries from a narratological perspective. There is a large corpus of documentaries representing perpetrators. Many feature in-depth interviews with perpetrators and are directed by victims, who in some cases spent several years filming perpetrators. Yet despite this remarkable corpus of films, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the representation of perpetrators in academic literature. ‘Representing Perpetration’ will investigate documentary filmmakers’ political and ethical narrative strategies of representing genocidal perpetrators across four different genocides: The Holocaust, the 1965–1966 Indonesian massacres, the Cambodian genocide, and the genocide of the Tutsi. I will examine the ways in which documentary filmmakers reframe the perpetrators’ self-deceptions and seek to undermine (successfully or not) the perpetrators’ accounts of history. In so doing, many of these documentary filmmakers manage to wrestle testimonies of atrocities from those most invested in concealing them. Methodologically, I will use narratology to systematically analyse directors’ depiction of genocidal perpetrators. This approach is particularly suitable to investigate the double role these documentaries play in providing an evidentiary record of perpetrators’ testimonies but also in shaping the historical narrative in accordance with the directors’ ethics.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNКоординаторДания