Radioactive Documentary : Filming the Nuclear Environment after the Cold War.

Cover -- Radioactive Documentary -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Risk, reflexivity and documentary film -- Documentary film and nuclear technology -- Reflexive modernization and documentary reflection on modernization -- Extending the history of radioactive documentary -- The 'moralizing society' as 'second modernity' -- 1 Capturing the uranium settlement: Volker Koepp's Die Wismut (1993, Germany) and Suzan Baraza's Uranium Drive-In (2013, USA) -- Introduction -- The legacy of the DEFA documentary -- A history of banned images -- The sound and image of Wismut radioactivity -- Radioactive society -- The measured society -- The society of measurement -- The camera at the -- Reviewing the radioactive past -- Toxic camera -- Situated testimony -- 2 Framing radioactive sites of evacuation: Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Pripyat (1999, Austria, Ukraine) and Toshi Fujiwara's Mujin Chitai (No Man's Zone, 2011, Japan) -- Introduction -- The invitation to film Pripyat -- Measuring the zone of alienation -- Cinematography of black and white and symmetry -- Situated memory and the 'punctum' -- The safety officer's speech -- Living in the zone -- Fukushima and speaking beside the triple disaster -- Local accident in a global context -- Japan and the great acceleration -- Evacuation as reorganization -- 3 Placing the nuclear storage site: Michael Madsen's Into Eternity (2010, Denmark) and Peter Galison and Rob Moss's Containment (2015, USA) -- Introduction -- Two activist films -- Nuclear waste pitched as a concept film -- Cool expert documentary -- Physics and the conceptual 'no-man's land' -- The documentary function -- Containment: The film -- The deliberative intention.

4 Remembering the architecture of nuclear power: Volker Sattel's Unter Kontrolle (Under Control, 2011, Germany) and Ivy Meeropol's Indian Point (2015, USA) -- Introduction -- A difficult film -- Archive and archaeology -- Visualizing radioactivity -- A sequence of nuclear sites -- Reading radioactive images -- An ordinary nuclear power station -- Cold War history -- Ordinary atoms -- Community of resistance -- 5 New nuclear reflexivity: Rob Stone's Pandora's Promise (2013, USA) and Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola's Atomin Paluu (Return of the Atom, 2015, Finland) -- Introduction -- The promotion of radioactivity -- High seriousness and satire in contemporary nuclear films -- Pandora's Promise and the nuclear conversion story -- A visit to Chernobyl and Fukushima -- Return: Atomic time -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion, or the endlessly reflexive archive: Tim Usborne's Inside Sellafield (2015, UK) and Mark Cousins' Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015, UK) -- Toxicity as a national challenge -- Archives and affect -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Presents analysis of ten documentary films about nuclear issues made since the end of the Cold War. Argues that public fascination with radioactive spaces has been used reflexively to present contemporary difficult themes such as Chernobyl, Fukushima, closure of nuclear power stations and the siting of geological waste repositories. 12 b/w illus.

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