Recording Memories from Political Violence (Book)

A Film-maker's Journey

This book combines written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyse the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies in this informed, instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and post-conflict studies.

Edition

Based on work the author has carried out with survivor groups in Northern Ireland and South Africa, Recording Memories from Political Violence draws on written and audiovisual texts to describe and analyze the use of documentary filmmaking in recording experiences of political conflict. A variety of issues relevant to the genre are addressed at length, including the importance of ethics in the collaboration between the filmmaker and the participant and the effect of location on the accounts of participants. Cahal McLaughlin draws on the diverse fields of film and cultural studies, as well as nearly twenty years of production experience, in this informed and instructive contribution to documentary filmmaking and post-conflict studies.

Cahal McLaughlin is a senior lecturer at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster. He is also a documentary filmmaker whose recent projects include Inside Stories: Memories of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and We Never Give Up.

Introduction
 
Chapter 1: Raising Heads above the Parapet: Research Questions, Context and Methodologies
 
Chapter 2: Telling Our Story: The Springhill Massacre 
 
Chapter 3: A Prisoner’s Journey: Educational Filmmaking 
 
Chapter 4: We Never Give Up: Reparations in South Africa 
 
Chapter 5: Inside Stories: Memories from The Maze and Long Kesh Prison 
 
Chapter 6: Inside Stories: Insider Outsider Perspectives 
 
Chapter 7: Prisons Memory Archive
 
Chapter 8: Unheard Voices
 
Conclusion

A book about memory, trust, and an invaluable historical recording. It would be a disservice ... if the memories and voices in these films didn’t attract as wide an audience as possible.

Jenny Meegan and Philip O’Sullivan, Irish Studies Review

A good example of how research and practice can walk hand in hand. ... Very well written.

Laura Santos Lopes de Aguiar, Crime, Media and Culture
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