Review: Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary, by Jihoon Kim

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary, by Jihoon Kim Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary by Jihoon Kim Nora Stone Nora Stone NORA STONE teaches media production and film studies at Birmingham-Southern College. Her monograph, How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960–2022, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Jihoon Kim, Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. $125.00 cloth, $39.95 paper. 320 pages. Film Quarterly (2022) 76 (1): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nora Stone; Review: Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary, by Jihoon Kim. Film Quarterly 1 September 2022; 76 (1): 111–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.111 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Jihoon Kim, Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. $125.00 cloth, $39.95 paper. 320 pages. What is a documentary? Film theorists have mulled this question for decades, but Jihoon Kim takes a capacious view in an effort to draw together the various kinds of media labeled “documentary.” In his new book, Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary, Kim decenters traditional documentary film, focusing instead on gallery installations, activist videos, interactive projects, virtual-reality environments, and experimental cinema. All combine the aims of documentary film with novel uses of digital technology and the affordances of networked communication. While his jumps from i-doc to multiscreen art installation to protest witness video can be dizzying—and lead to questions about milieu and intended audience—Documentary’s Expanded Fields is an ambitious and worthwhile attempt to map the wide array of documentary... You do not currently have access to this content.