Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning
Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro, "Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning"
English | ISBN: 0813549027, 0813549035 | 2011 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0813549027, 0813549035 | 2011 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound, along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naive concept of truth and reality-for them, documentaries are information sources. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of truth and reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions?