The pose of neutrality in social documentary films

From the outset, documentary filmmakers have sought to achieve the unobtainable goal of re-presenting reality in a purely objective manner. What began with an attempt to document a dying/evolving culture in Flaherty's Nanook of the North led to a century of debate about how closely documentary...

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Main Author: Van Laanen, Michael Whitney
Language:en
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/van_laanen/Van_LaanenM0810.pdf