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Beschreibung
Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means for documentary's 21st century position as a genus in the "class" cinema; for its foundations as, primarily, a scientistic, eurocentric and patriarchal discourse; for its future in a world where assumptions of photographic image integrity cannot be sustained. Unpacked are distinctions between performance and performativy and between different levels of interaction, linearity and hypertextuality, engagement and impact, ethics and conditions of reception. Winston, Vanstone and Wang Chi explore and celebrate documentary's potentials in the digital age.
Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means for documentary's 21st century position as a genus in the "class" cinema; for its foundations as, primarily, a scientistic, eurocentric and patriarchal discourse; for its future in a world where assumptions of photographic image integrity cannot be sustained. Unpacked are distinctions between performance and performativy and between different levels of interaction, linearity and hypertextuality, engagement and impact, ethics and conditions of reception. Winston, Vanstone and Wang Chi explore and celebrate documentary's potentials in the digital age.
Über den Autor
Brian Winston was a leading figure in British media studies. He was Professor of Communications and Lincoln Chair at the University of Lincoln, UK. He held senior academic posts at UK National Film and Television School, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Wales (Cardiff), and Westminster University. He authored and edited over 20 books, including Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited (British Film Institute, 1995), Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinema and Television (British Film Institute, 1996), Fires Were Started- (BFI Film Classics, 1999), and A Right to Offend (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012).
Zusammenfassung
An update of the documentary canon by the leading British authority in the field
Inhaltsverzeichnis

AN AGENDA

1. "A Much Hailed Triumph"
2. "The Shakiest of Foundations"
3. The Act of Documenting

PART ONE: DIGITAL POTENTIALS

1. "A Walk in the Woods"
Image:
AUTHENTICITY: Indexing -- Evidence
TRUST: Manipulation -- Judgment
SAVVY: Inferences -- Probability

2. "A breath of fresh air for documentary"
Kit:
CONTRADICTION: Digitization -- Standards
GLOBALIZATIONi: Proliferation-- Resistance

3. "Life as narrativized"
Story:
INTERPASSIVITY: Navigation -- Feedback -- Intervention
HOMO NARRANS: Texts -- Stories
SCRIPTRIX NARRANS: Challenge --Paths

PART TWO: ACTUAL EFFECTS..

.. on THE FILMED

4. "To thine own self be true"
Performing:
APPEARING: Distrust -- Presentational Acting -- Representational Being
BEHAVING: Performativity -- Casting

5. "Giving Voice"
Co-creating:
CONTROL: Engagement -- Empowerment
CHANGE: Facilitating -- Embedding

.. on THE FILMER

6. "To Make Space For The Un-Thought"
Subjectivities:
GENDER: Narcissism -- Auto/Biography
EMANCIPATION: Exclusions -- "Facts"

7. "Nous somme dans le bain"/"We are implicated"
Care:
HARM: Involvement -- Consequences
RIGHTS: Protocols -- Control

.. on THE SPECTATOR

8. "You have to make up your own mind"
Perception:
EXPECTATIONS: Truth -- Omission
ASSUMPTONS: Wow! -- Ostranenie

9. "When the lights go up" -- Reception
OUTCOMES: Impact -- Engagement -- Research
CONDITIONS: Autonomy -- Hazards

MINUTES: THE ACT OF DOCUMENTING
Considerations

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781501309175
ISBN-10: 150130917X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Winston, Brian
Vanstone, Gail
Chi, Wang
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Brian Winston (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 104154215