Documentary

What Remains: The East Marshall Street Oral History and Memorialization Well Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

December 2, 2025 Christine Cynn / Virginia Commonwealth University and Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University Leave a comment

This article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.

Health Screeners: Documenting Medical Issues through Digital Media
Guillermina Zabala Suárez / University of Texas at San Antonio

October 24, 2025 Guillermina Zabala Suàrez / University of Texas at San Antonio Leave a comment

Guillermina Zabala Suárez asks: Can digital media become a device to create awareness of health issues in out communities?

Welcome to Wrexham and Representations of Management in Football (Soccer) as a Product of the “Media Sports Cultural Complex”
Dr. Andrew Stubbs-Lacy / University of Staffordshire

April 23, 2025 Andrew Stubbs-Lacy / Staffordshire University Leave a comment

Andrew Stubbs-Lacy explores the representation and construction of management in football with a focus on Welcome to Wrexham.

Televising Deportation: Hierarchies of Suffering in Immigration Nation
Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University

December 4, 2020 Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University One comment

Crystal Camargo interrogates the politics of representation of undocumented immigrants and the privileging of moral complexity for ICE agents in Netflix’s docuseries Immigration Nation.

Plandemic and the Spread of Misinformation
Madison Hill / Independent Scholar

May 25, 2020 Madison Hill / Independent Scholar

Judy Mikovitz in Plandemic Misinformation has plagued the public consciousness since the beginning of the written word; however, contemporary fake news has the opportunity to be far more damaging than its historical predecessors. Access to a global information superhighway allows unreliable images, articles, and videos to be shared to millions of people in one instantaneous click. Over the past five […]

**Over*Flow: Festival of Disruption: A Report from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival**
Sarah E. S. Sinwell / University of Utah

February 11, 2020 Sarah E. S. Sinwell / University of Utah Leave a comment

Sarah E. S. Sinwell reflects on Sundance 2020’s biggest films and distribution deals, as well the diversity of the directors at the festival.

Trauma on a Loop: The National September 11 Memorial Museum
Toby Lee / New York University

October 3, 2016 Toby Lee / New York University 2 comments

In her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Toby Lee considers the multiple and repeating uses of looped documentary media in the national September 11 Memorial Museum, examining their their particular sense of timelessness and their relationship to collective historical trauma.

Hybridity, Extratextuality and the Docudrama:
Re-evaluating ‘Spoilers’ in The Jinx
Laura Minor  / Keele University

November 21, 2015 Laura Minor / Keele University 4 comments

Laura Minor explores the ambiguity of contemporary documentary forms, examining Andrew Jarecki’s documentary mini-series The Jinx in relation to the television documdrama, analyzing its hybridity, extratextuality, and its presentation of “real life” spoilers.

**Adam Curtis’ Bitter Lake: Clarity through Collage**
Kevin J. Hunt / Nottingham Trent University

March 23, 2015 Kevin J. Hunt / Nottingham Trent University One comment

Curtis’ cognitive mapping of the issues surrounding Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Western loss of faith in politicians and economic structures is turned into the formal structure of Bitter Lake, resulting in a documentary that provides a selective but convincing overview of an otherwise incoherent situation

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