Documentary and fiction

‘Nanook of the North, seems poised between documentary and fiction...it marks a moment before the distinction between fiction and documentary is set’. (William Rothman) Discuss. By Marina Oriente The history of cinema has always been significantly related to ethnographic film and documentary since its very early stages of development. From the first photographic moving image experiment made in June 19, 1872, aiming to determine weather a running horse ever had the four legs in the air. Followed by a series of technical inventions, Thomas Edison’s and W. K. L. Dickson’s early Kinetograph (1891) and Kinestoscope (1893) camera and viewing apparatus, to the Phantoscope, projector developed by Charles Francis Jenkins, which allowed for the first time in history film to be screened to an audience. The later invention of the Cinématographe (1895), by Louis and Auguste Lumière, had a huge impact in society; Even bringing attention of the scientific world with as many as 60 operations being recorded by doctors and neurosurgeons in Europe. The Lumière Brothers were busy with the filming and screenings of the so called "actualités", short extracts of daily life, and according to the media historian Erik Barnouw, this programs were so popular that within two years they had approximately one hundred operators at work around the world, both showing their films and photographing new ones to add to a steadily increasing catalogue. What came later, in the beginning of the…

Association doi:10.1017/S0260210508007833 Popular visual language as global communication: the remediation of United Airlines Flight 93 CYNTHIA WEBER* Abstract. This article argues that while the linguistic turn in mainstream IR is important in broadening how IR approaches global communications, the linguistic turn has its limitations because mainstream IR tends to, in Mattelart’s terms, ‘ex-communicate’ the visual from the linguistic. This is highly problematic, considering,…

se formaram alguns profissionais que se tornariam clássicos, como Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks e a própria Dorothea Lange. O acervo da FSA é considerado um dos mais importantes registros da vida americana do começo do século XX. Alexandre Belém http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/sobre-imagens/mulheres/dorothea-lange/ During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented…

distracting viewers from the documentary itself, as in the case of one viewer who complained that the documentary had a 24 feel to it, a reference to Sutherland’s starring role in that television drama.37 But the most important reason why neither documentary achieves a sense of immediacy is because of how the medium they were made for – television – mediates time. While there are many types of televisual time, two major types are television programming time and television news time.…

How to make a successful documentary Project Overview This project is about to make a successful and diferent documentary describe some situations that can happen in a near future. This documentary will be different, because It contain renowned artists with the goal to arouse people's interest for the theme, as a result of this action, to make people think about of important issues, that the film will bring. But It is important to know in this documentary there should not …

_______________________________________ 1 ISSARI, M. Ali; PAUL, Doris A. What is Cinema vérité?. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1979, p.14 2 ISSARI, M. Ali; PAUL, Doris A. What is Cinema vérité?. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1979, p.19 Gab ri el Perron e Vi ann a 5 Rouch vs. Wiseman: Uma análise comparativa entre Chronique d’un Été eTuticut Follies Mas, foi no âmbito das questões filosóficas, ideológicas e éticas que a grande questão surgiu: O que é a Verdade?…

processed food in here is relatively cheap, while in Brazil, for example, is considerably more expensive. There it is cheaper to buy all ingredients separately and cook them at home than going to Mc Donald's or buying a frozen pre-made dish, while here industrial food is on the top of the list when it comes to cheap food. We can clearly see that if we compare the price of a Big Mac sandwich between both countries. While United States shows up as 12th with a U$ 4.20 cost, Brazil is on the…

in the history of the cinema, but it was. Written in 1941, the film continues so current, complex and replete of unknowns that still today wakes up the intellectual public's attention. The film is explicitly based on William Randolph Hearst’s life, the owner of most of the american communication means during the first half of the century XX. Daniel Salomão, in his text Porque Citizen Kane continua atual até os dias de hoje? , says that many say that the magnate got to receive a copy…

IrineiaSoares Sociologia Pós-laboral 3ª Ano Abstract Waste collection is increasingly emerging and shaping the urban background. Almost all cities of developing countries are trying to understand how to generate income for people living in slums, while at the same time reducing social stigma attached to these communities. In the collected data it appears that the up-and-coming trend among waste collectors is the creation of associations that can anchor an economical support…

como podcasts a partir dos primórdios da mídia. É o caso de This American Life e Radiolab , referências na categoria. Desde 2005, de realizadores independentes - que viram no podcasting uma oportunidade - ou veículos estabelecidos, cada vez mais programas do gênero são lançados. Em um artigo de 2013, nesta passagem que continua bastante atual, a pesquisadora Virginia Madsen destaca essa ampliação, a ligação das novas com as velhas formas e a atemporalidade dos podcasts: “Today we…