Pushing the Boundaries of the Historical Documentary: Su Friedrich's 1984 the Ties That Bind

dc.contributor.authorSpence, Louise
dc.contributor.authorCengiz, Esin Paça
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:04:24Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:04:24Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentFakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Radyo, Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that Su Friedrich's 1984 film The Ties That Bind employs what were at the time atypical forms and techniques to push the limits of the traditional historical documentary. Its aesthetic experimentation helps to redefine the idea of historical representation in film and does so mainly by treating evidence as both partial (in both senses of the word) and contingent offering a radical challenge to normative history and destabilizing the notion of history as authority. Unlike conventional documentaries the film marks its own limitations: its inability to provide stable answers or eternal certainties. Questioning her mother's spoken memories and commenting on them Friedrich forces a rupture in the 'evidence' of history and establishes a place in which to 'speak' herself. By including the past that her mother is talking about on the sound track as well as the present on the image track (such as images of her mother's life in the early 1980s images of intertitles etched into the film emulsion revealing the questions Friedrich asked her mother and her reactions to the things her mother said as well as images of the filmmaker's visits to historical sites) Friedrich brings the present into the past and demonstrates how history is to quote Walter Benjamin 'time filled with the presence of the now'.en_US]
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13642529.2012.695059en_US
dc.identifier.endpage392
dc.identifier.issn1364-2529en_US
dc.identifier.issn1364-2529
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84865039729en_US
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dc.identifier.startpage377en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/934
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2012.695059
dc.identifier.volume16en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000306660100005en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.institutionauthorSpence, Louiseen_US
dc.institutionauthorSpence, Louıse
dc.institutionauthorPaça Cengiz, Esin
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.journalRethinking Historyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectHistoriographyen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectEvidenceen_US
dc.subjectHistorical documentaryen_US
dc.subjectDocumentary experimentationen_US
dc.titlePushing the Boundaries of the Historical Documentary: Su Friedrich's 1984 the Ties That Binden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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