Книга: Darren Ingram «Throwing Shadows on the Wall; Understanding the Documentary as Genre»

Throwing Shadows on the Wall; Understanding the Documentary as Genre

Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing"

In 1895 when the Lumiere brothers filmed a train arriving at a station, not only was the medium of film born, one could argue that the documentary genre was as well. Most define a documentary as a story or collection of information that is `real` or non-fictive. In recent years though, determining what is real has become problematic for critics and theorists, as it is often difficult to know what is true and what is merely the interpretation of the filmmaker. In this collection, I begin with the assumption that all documentaries no matter how objective they appear are in fact constructions of their author in one way or another. With this said, some documentaries are still more real or true than others. I investigate how this is so, as well as what makes a film a documentary in the first place. I also analyze exactly how much experimentation the documentary as a form can sustain. Can a documentary support the postmodern structuring often seen in fictional narratives? In order... ISBN:9783659511967

Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2014)

ISBN: 9783659511967

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