{"title":"Series: Nonfictions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eNonfictions\u003c\/strong\u003e collection offers a diverse range of works that explore real-world ideas and experiences across multiple fields. Readers will find thoughtful discussions on \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, psychology, finance, business, and technology\u003c\/em\u003e, alongside engaging insights into history, travel, and adventure. This series supports curious minds eager to deepen their understanding of complex subjects through accessible, well-crafted narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond traditional nonfiction, the collection includes unique titles that blend informative content with storytelling, appealing to enthusiasts of graphic novels and children’s literature. Whether seeking practical knowledge or inspiration, the \u003cem\u003eNonfictions\u003c\/em\u003e series encourages exploration and thoughtful reflection on the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"filming-history-from-below-by-efren-cuevas-9780231195973","title":"Filming History from Below","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and personalities. In recent decades, in line with historiographical trends advocating \"history from below,\" a different type of historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as \"microhistorical documentaries\" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCuevas pinpoints the key features of these documentaries, identifying their parallels with written microhistory: a reduced scale of observation, a central role given to human agency, a conjectural approach to the use of archival sources, and a reliance on narrative structures. Microhistorical documentaries also use tools specific to film to underscore the affective dimension of historical narratives, often incorporating autobiographical and essayistic perspectives, and highlighting the role of the protagonists' personal memories in the reconstruction of the past. 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In this volume, authors specialising in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (\u003cem\u003eMan with a Movie Camera\u003c\/em\u003e, 1928), Chris Marker (\u003cem\u003eDescription of a Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (\u003cem\u003eCoffea Arábiga\u003c\/em\u003e, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (\u003cem\u003eNotes for an African Oresteia\u003c\/em\u003e, 1969), Chantal Akerman (\u003cem\u003eNews from Home\u003c\/em\u003e, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (\u003cem\u003eNotre musique\u003c\/em\u003e, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (\u003cem\u003ePalombella Rossa\u003c\/em\u003e, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (\u003cem\u003eCivil War\u003c\/em\u003e, 2002), Claire Denis (\u003cem\u003eL'Intrus\u003c\/em\u003e, 2004) and Terrence Malick (\u003cem\u003eThe Tree of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, 2011), among others. 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