PHL 710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Scapegoating, Documentary Film Movement, Exculpatory Evidence
6 May 2019
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Trevor ponech - non-fictional cinematic artworks and knowledge. Theorists typically use the concept of realism to categorize movies as non-fiction. Said to represent reality vs. the unreal presented by fictional movies. Conceiving non-fiction cinema in terms of reality brings up the questions about their. Implies a relationship between an epistemological function and a work being non-fiction reliability as a means of acquiring knowledge (true and justified beliefs) Those that are optimistic about the medium"s potential for facilitating epistemic access to reality. Opposing side that holds that since non-fictions are selective, manipulative, and subjective, they cannot escaping error, groundless belief, and misrepresentation to which all attempts at knowledge are predestined. Preoccupation with the genre"s realism weakens the distinction between fiction and non- fiction. Despite difference in labels and treatment, non-fiction is like fiction because it traffics in falsehood and fantasy. Using narrative, figuration, and symbolism, it offers an ideology of how someone images or desires the world to be.
