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Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era

Autor Jaimie Baron
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2020 – vârsta ani
In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the ethics of such appropriations, particularly when the recording  depicts actual people and events. Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse in that it was not intended or at least anticipated by the original maker, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. In fact, there are many instances of productive misuse that seem justified. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Documentary scholars have long engaged with the question of the ethical responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for the taking and repurposing? Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys a range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and attempts to theorize their ethical implications.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813599267
ISBN-10: 0813599261
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 10 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

JAIMIE BARON is an associate professor of film studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation and co-editor of Docalogue.
 

Cuprins

Contents
Introduction    Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
1          (Re)exposing Intimate Traces
2          Speaking through Others
3          Dislocating the Hegemonic Gaze
4          Reframing the Perpetrator’s Gaze
5          Abusing Images
Filmography
Acknowledgements
Bibliography  
Index
 

Recenzii

"While much has been written on the legal, economic and aesthetic aspects of the uses of archival and appropriated audiovisual media, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is the first in-depth study of the ethical dimension of these practices. In the age of fake news, remix and the limitless manipulability of digital imagery, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse brings together major questions and current debates around the ethical boundaries between revelation, distortion, and exploitation when original images and sounds are reworked and repurposed to create a 'layered gaze' of new meanings. Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is clearly written, well-argued and Baron’s astute readings of a wide range of recent film and media works show the complexities of the ethical and political stakes involved. This book will be of value to working filmmakers, artists and journalists and is essential reading in avant-garde, documentary film, and media studies, art history and journalism."

Descriere

Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys the range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage in order to theorize their implications.