Documentary Criminology: Expanding the Criminological Imagination with “<i>Mardi Gras—Made in China</i>” as a Case Study (23 Minutes)
This paper explores the central role of documentary filmmaking as a methodological practice in contemporary criminology. It draws from cultural criminology to develop emerging, open-ended practices for conducting ethnographically inflected audiovisual research that crafts sensory knowledge from aesthetic experience. First, it demonstrates how documentary criminology is an ethnographic practice that embraces audiovisual technologies to inflect, render, and depict the aesthetics of material, sensory, and corporeal experiences of crime and transgression as knowledge production. Second, it explores a particular type of lived experience that John Dewey terms “aesthetic” to demonstrate the sorts of tangible and intangible entities that documentary criminology can interpret, record and depict as knowledge. To demonstrate this approach, the article employs a variety of examples from cultural criminology and from the documentary <i>Mardi Gras: Made in China</i>. The final part of the paper turns to an analysis of <i>Mardi Gras: Made in China</i> itself to illustrate the overlap of theory, methods, and reflexive practices of documentary criminology within four broad aesthetic domains: temporality, topography, corporeality, and the personal. The inclusion of documentary within an open-ended methodological sensibility, both as a mode of analysis and as a means of producing sensory knowledge, can expand the criminological imagination. <video src="http://img.mdpi.org/data/chineese_mardi_gras_2015.mp4?autoplay=0" width="500" height="366" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen controls></video> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/87231218">Mardi Gras: Made in China (23 minutes select scenes)</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user759926">David Redmon</a>.
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2015
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Authors: | Redmon, David |
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Societies. - MDPI, Open Access Journal, ISSN 2075-4698. - Vol. 5.2015, 2, p. 425-441
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MDPI, Open Access Journal |
Subject: | documentary | documentary criminology | cultural criminology | aesthetic experience | Mardi Gras: Made in China | sensory |
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Extent: | application/pdf text/html |
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Type of publication: | Article |
Classification: | A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; A14 - Sociology of Economics ; P - Economic Systems ; P0 - Economic Systems. General ; P1 - Capitalist Systems ; P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies ; P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions ; P4 - Other Economic Systems ; P5 - Comparative Economic Systems ; Z1 - Cultural Economics |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275197
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