Knowledge Commons | Ryan Watson | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/watsonry/activity/ Activity feed for Ryan Watson. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 535a5b93957265a5dfcad60bcfa66542 Ryan Watson deposited Introduction: radical documentary today in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705413/ Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:23:50 -0400 The introduction to a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film I co-edited with Sarah Hamblin on "Radical Documentary in the Globalized Age of New Media"

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]]> 0 f762f770bdcbb0c44b71e7e6c2fb482e Ryan Watson posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664354/#acomment-1665599 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:17:50 -0400 Thanks, Frank! I’ll take a look.

In reply to - Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death in the group Film Studies This essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the […] ]]> 13de2503be650f2241049a019935518b Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664355/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:25:53 -0400 This essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9a90172d0af8a9c7c956ffa4a3bb2bc Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664354/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:25:49 -0400 This essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the Rodney King tape, namely, it’s transformation of the concerns of the field of documentary studies in the turn toward “visible evidence” in the 1990s. This turn privileged the power of visibility, particularly in radical and activist practices, but visibility is a fraught concept for m…[Read more]

]]> 2 d1f295bf707ece7dc10e92cbdf28faf0 Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664043/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:16:27 -0400 This essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8d107e59c6792c55f06a97ad50a33e7 Ryan Watson deposited In the Wakes of Rodney King: Militant Evidence and Media Activism in the Age of Viral Black Death https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664041/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:11:06 -0400 This essay explores the historical and critical legacy of the Rodney King tape, namely, it’s transformation of the concerns of the field of documentary studies in the turn toward “visible evidence” in the 1990s. This turn privileged the power of visibility, particularly in radical and activist practices, but visibility is a fraught concept for m…[Read more]

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