The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact as a creative platform for media artists such as Jean-Louis Boissier, Zoe Beloff, Adriene Jenik, and Chris Marker. Although the CD-ROM was not a lasting commercial success it was a vibrant medium that allowed for experimentation in adapting literary works. Building on the work of Gill...

Le cinéaste et écrivain franco-cambodgien Rithy Panh fuit le Cambodge à la fin des années 1970, un pays dévasté à la suite des actes génocidaires des Khmers rouges. Ce livre se penche sur les ouvrages de Rithy Panh en lien avec ses films documentaires. La mise en récit initiale dans les films et la remise en récit dans les ouvrages soulèvent des questions fondamentales : pourquoi un cinéaste au succès retentissant comme Rithy Panh s’est-il tourné vers l’écriture pour remettre en récit le g...

This collection of essays presents new formulations of ideas and practices within documentary media that respond critically to the multifaceted challenges of our age. As social media, augmented reality, and interactive technologies play an increasing role in the documentary landscape, new theorizations are needed to account for how such media both represents recent political, socio-historical, environmental, and representational shifts, and challenges the predominant approaches by promotin...