CAS PH 159 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Humphrey Bogart
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Temporal properties: abell says editing is not external, but rather constitutive of our experience of cinema, cinema depicts through time. If we agree with abell, we can think of fictions as how filmmakers choose to temporally organize and present photographic images to represent something fictional. There are two approaches to documentary: we draw on properties of the film itself (dir) currie argues this. In other words, dir is the nature of the film (i. e. real people involved in the story: we draw on what we take the film to be asserting or what the filmmaker intends to assert (da) In other words, da is what the filmmaker wants you to see. In nonfiction films, images are invoked of things that really happened in the world. Documentary a film being nonfiction isn"t sufficient to it being a documentary. It needs to be a creative treatment of actuality organized because the creator wants to tell you something about it.