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Documentary Across Disciplines

Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg · 2016

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Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of 'fly on the wall' immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary.

Book details

Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
The MIT Press
Editions
1
Pages
328
ISBN
9780262529068

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