Chapter 9 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Actuality
Films that often consist of people going about their everyday lives.
Direct Cinema
Documentary type that emerged in 1950’s. Often have a ‘fly on the wall’ aesthetic, where filmmakers were only observers of the reality they were filming.
Cinema Verite
Cinema truth, has a foundation of interaction between filmmaker and filmed, rather than detachment.
Reality TV
Documentary basis in the sense that they use actual footage, but are often shaped to fit certain formats.
Recontextualized documentary form fit for television.
Rhetorical
Designed to persuade.
Typically a voiceover or presenter stating what the argued point is, or more subtly.
Poetic Documentary
More allusive and use associative editing to capture a mood or tone rather than make an explicit arguement
Expository Documentary
Use of rhetorical techniques to make points and persuade
Participatory Documentary
Filmmaker does not remain aloof and actively engages with it by participating or interacting with the people.
Observational Documentary
Documentary appears to take a detached and thereby neutral stance towards subject matter
Reflective Documentary
Offers a commentary on the means of representation itself. Encourages the viewer to question the idea of documentary
Performative Documentary
Performing in front of a camera, where the filmmaker and their subjects actively create the documentary by performing certain social actions
Topicals
Given name to nonfictional news items in the early period.
Old news
Participant observation
Social science methodology where researchers immerse themselves in a social context. Researching monkeys by being one with the monkey.
Ethics
Concerning morality, with a strong ethical discourse through documentary.
Debates whether reconstruction, filming without consent, etc is ethical.
