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The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s TOPONIMIA

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This article maps out the presence of a spatio-political tendency within a diverse corpus of experimental nonfiction films. Within such works urban/rural landscapes and spaces – typically presented through protracted, deep focus shots – become the central and structuring foci through which to deploy critiques of authoritarian state governance, global capitalism, and neoliberalist political hegemony. Using Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel’s film TOPONIMIA (2015) as a case study, this article examines some of the political and aesthetic potentialities for this mode of film practice.

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Smith, Patrick B.: The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s TOPONIMIA. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 5 (2016), Nr. 2, S. 49-71. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/3356.
@ARTICLE{Smith2016,
 author = {Smith, Patrick B.},
 title = {The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s TOPONIMIA},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/3356},
 volume = 5,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {49--71},
}
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