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Documentary Lecture Three:

Documentary Lecture Three:. Reflexive Documentary. The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris,1988. Theatricality of the opening shots suggests a documentary form Utilizes what is now familiar as Reality TV form (before Reality TV) We see the crime from a number of perspectives

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Documentary Lecture Three:

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  1. Documentary Lecture Three: Reflexive Documentary

  2. The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris,1988 • Theatricality of the opening shots suggests a documentary form • Utilizes what is now familiar as Reality TV form (before Reality TV) • We see the crime from a number of perspectives • The work juxtaposes various positions of the people involved and doesn’t adopt a Voice-of God viewpoint • Shares a similar functional feeling to fiction • Continuous use of Philip Glass’ music reminds the viewer it’s a representation • By constantly changing the mode of representation and perspective we have no choice but to adopt the different subject positions, but are also obligated to change our reading of the information and signs we’re given.

  3. “How can the viewer be drawn into an awareness of this problematic so that no myth of the knowability of the world, of the power of the logos, no repression of the unseen and unrepresentable occludes the magnitude of “what every film-maker knows”: that every representation, however fully imbued with documentary significance, remains a fabrication.” -Bill Nichols

  4. from http://us.imdb.com/Title?0025456Orlok Summary: The only realist film I've seen that I enjoyed.This review is being written by a man who absolutely despises everything about realist style films. However, Flaherty's depiction of life on the Isle of Aran captivated me from start to finish. Filled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations, Flaherty would have been lying through his teeth to have called this a documentary (the man of Aran wasn't even from Aran). Man of Aran remains realist however in that, I believe, in that it only speaks to you if you hold a connection to the sort of life it depicts. Flaherty brings forth the essence of that life but will only hold your interest if you actually care how someone might farm in a soilless field of broken rock.If that isn't your bag, you can still at least enjoy Flaherty's visuals. Waves pound against rocky cliffs sending spray a hundred feet high. It is quite a spectacle.

  5. One AM • The use of an actor • Costuming that provides additional meanings • A selected environment • Visibility of the director and crew • Conceptual form with no scripting • Dramatization and theatricality

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