Representation through documentary : a post-modern assessment
Abstract
Like photography, documentaries are a representational medium: They record and occasionally reconstruct the everyday reality viewers typically cannot experience themselves. Because photography is an indexical sign signifying truth, audiences understand the documentary, a moving photograph, to signify truth also. However, they are able to make the distinction between the "everyday reality" presented by documentaries and the fictive "reality" of cinematic films.
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Citation
Artifacts ; issue 06 (2012)
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