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Documentary
chapter 8: reading film
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a documentary film is defined as a film | intedned to convey triths or facts |
| films that use a documentary style to present adn stage often humourous realities are usually called | mockumentaries |
| all of the following are precurosrs to film documentary except | radio news broad casting |
| directed by ____ the documentary film Nanook of the North blends a romantic fascinationg with nature with an anthropological desire to document other cultures | robert flaherty |
| ___ insists on filming real objects, people, and events in a confrontational way where subjects acknowledge they are being filmed by a camera | cinema verite |
| early nonfiction films that present a snapshot of real people and events are also called | actualities |
| which of the following was NOT a crucial innovation for the documentary form? | widescreen formats |
| documentary films that explore different global cultires and epople, oth living and extinct are called | anthropoligcal |
| the technique of recreating or theatrically staging a presumably true event is known as | documentary reenactiments |
| a structural model that presents a catalog of images or sounds throughout the course of a film is called _ | cumulative organizations |
| documentary and expiremntal practices have aimed to ___ | ALL OF THE ABOVE (accurately portray facts and realities, comm. new knowlefe and info., and challenge our expireineces and ideas) |
| ____ presents places, objects, individs, or expierineces through a patter with a specific non narrative logic | developmental exposition |
| the assumption that the facts and realities of a past history can be more or less recovered and accurately represented is best described as | reflexive documentary histories |
| ___ call attention to the filmmaking process of persepective of the filmaker in determining the form of the docu. | reflexive or performative positions |
| more than fictional narrative cinmena, doc. film tends to emphasize | meaning |
| leni riefenstahls infamous film about the naxi party, triumph of thw all, is an ex. of which doc. rhetorical position? | persuasive |
| city symmphony gilms are non narrative T/F? | FALSE |
| Docu. films provude us access to an unmediated sinfular reality of truth T/F? | FALSE |
| __ best describes a rhetorical position organized around a question and answer format? | interrogative positions |
| the three aesthetic film modes are : | narrative, doc.m and eperimental |
| documentary films are representations of -- | presumes dacts, real experiences, and actual events of the world |
| what is the significance of docum. films? | revels new or ingorned realities, condronts assumptions, alters opinions, serves as social, political and cultural lens |
| cumulative organizations | present catalog of images or sounds throught the film. no recog. logic or chronology is necessary |
| contrastic organizations | a series of contrast or oppositions meant to indicate diff. point of view on subect |
| developmental organizations | presents places, objects and individs through a patter of development. no specific non narrative logic or structure |
| explorative positions | people and places |
| interrogative and analytical positions | interviews of an event or problem |
| persasive positions | polemical debate driven, argumentative |
| reflexive and performative positions | foregrounds the presence and the mediating activity of the film, draws attention to how the film performs and stages certain relationships with the world it describes. questions "do documentaries allow easy access to truth?" |