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Representing Reality : Issues and Concepts in Documentary /

This book offers a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary tradition to power, the b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nichols, Bill, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Axes of orientation. The domain of documentary ; Documentary modes of representation ; Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film
  • Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other. Telling stories with evidence and arguments ; Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it ; The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity
  • Documentary representation and the historical world. Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power ; Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude.