In her PhD project “Thinking Images: Seeing and Saying in Documentary Film”, Rebecca Puchta dissects audiovisual images of digitization, surveillance and control found in contemporary documentary films such as Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, US 2014), Democracy (David Bernet, D, FR 2015) and Field of Vision – Project X (Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, US 2016). Focusing on aspects of expertise, access and translational processes, it investigates the production of knowledge in terms of big data and media infrastructures – in, with and through the moving image. This research relies on theories and methods from textual analysis, discourse analysis, anthropology as well as science and technology studies.
Research interests
- cultural and media theories
- documentary film
- governmentality studies
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Goethe University, Frankfurt E-Mail: puchta[at]tfm.uni-frankfurt.de |