Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Estonian Kroon, The Documentary
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March 13 2013 1. Representation- don"t judge on its faithfulness of the original. Does not try to affect any change and tends to follow a principle of empathy. Approach with a non- judgmental attitude: rhetorical documentaries- structured like essays and forthright of producing an argument. All the choices serve as evidence for argument. Filmmaker is much more like a fly in the soup. Getting in the way and embedded. Filmmaker can appear and the film and makes himself a subject. Is a self- reflective cinema- acknowledge presence of camera and to come in to structure of film. Voice associated with guiding us and creating links to moments in the film. Creating a cause and effect relationship: documentary film is often referred to as a discourse of sobriety- sober and seriousness. Languages and forms devoted to serious things such as law, medicine, economics, politics, science in general. Into the credit sequences more slogans are inserted.