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Docu-Terms Flashcards

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Institutional Framework

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  1. What organisations say they are
  2. Assumptions about film’s doco status, credibilty
  3. Act of representation of reality into question
  4. Forgotten Silver, exploits trust in Film Archive
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Community of Practictioners

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  1. Those who make docos, will transform traditions they inherit.
  2. Audience understanding of doco changes with theirs
  3. Forgotten Silver- Pjs reputation as a filmmaker, experts used in film
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Corpus of Texts

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  1. Films that make up the documentary tradition
  2. Voice of god commentary, interviews, location etc
  3. informing logic, engage with world
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Constituency of Viewers

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  1. Understanding documentary in relations to its audience
  2. Indexical dimension of an image- trust, authenticity
  3. mode of reception, assume docos tell truth
  4. Dark Side of the Moon, fake photos and evidence
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Poetic Documentary Mode

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  1. Emphasis visual associations, tonal or rhythmic qualities, experimental avante-garde
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Expository Documentary Mode

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  1. emphasis verbal commentary and argumentative logic, most associated with doco
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Observational Documentary Mode

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  1. Emphasis on direct engagement with everyday life, unobtrusive camera
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Participatory Documentary Mode

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  1. Emphasis on interaction between film maker and subject- interviews
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Reflexive Documentary Mode

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  1. Calls attention to assumptions and conventions that govern doco film making.
  2. Increases awareness of constructedness
  3. Land Without Bread- parodies conventions
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Performative Documentary Mode

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  1. Emphasis on subjective or expressive aspects of film makers own engagement.
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Discourse of Sobreity

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  1. The ways we have of speaking about social and historical relaity
  2. Want to be educated, knowledgeability about the world
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Epistephilia

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  1. The desire to know, which doco stimulates in audience.
  2. Gain a sense of pleasure form being in the know
  3. Doco able to take advantage of this construct authenticity makes audience believe more through their desire to know.
  4. Forgotten Silver- finding never seen before footage
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Paratextual Information

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  1. Extra information from outside the text

2. Credits, film company logo etc

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Verisimilitude

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  1. The appearance or semblance of truth or reality in a text.
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Realism

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  1. An aesthetic strategy

2. Hollywood, Social, Neo and Doco realism

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Indexicality

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  1. A mode in which the signifier is not arbitrary but is directly connected in some way to the signified.
  2. Promotes trust in photographs and film presenting real images, emulsion in the film.
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Cinema Verite

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  1. French, engagement between behind and in front of camera, observational
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Direct Cinema

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  1. American, unobtrusive, fly on the wall style
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Hand Held Camera

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  1. Camera not on a tripod, track but held by hand. Aesthetically shaking and imperfect, mobile.
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Available Light

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  1. Not artificial, uses only what light is around in reality.
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Location Sound

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  1. Records sound at same time as shooting, includes ‘noise’
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Walter Benjamin

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  1. Loss of authenticity through reproduction in which film is the main agent of transformation.
  2. Aura- what is lost in the reproduction of art, its essence embedded in tradition and time and space,
  3. Digital camera, anyone a film maker.
  4. Exit Through the Gift Shop reflects this idea, Thierry, stencils, mass copies.
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Ethnographic Film

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  1. A doco that focuses on a certain ethnic group, framing them as an outsider.
  2. Ethics- concious of moral treatment of subjects- Winston
    Informed Consent- contract the subjects must agree to
  3. No consent loose integrity, freedom of speech loose creative control.
  4. Nanook of the North, Borat, Les Herdes
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Jean Baudrillard

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  1. A hyper-reality where there is no original, never ending references.
  2. Simulacrum- a slight, unreal superficial likeness. No longer based on something real.
    Simulation- generation of models of a real without origin.
  3. Producing what looks like truth when really just references to a truth. Simulating truth.
  4. Dark Side of the Moon- simulates evidence.
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Jonathan Gray- Intertextuality

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  1. Intertextuality is the referencing of other texts within a text, fundamental to parody, 4 models of intertextulaity.
  2. Heirachical- influence, Team member, Divided, Interactive
  3. Mockumentary uses references to doco for humour and to deconstruct the form
  4. This is Spinal Tap
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Bunuel- Les Herdes

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  1. Director of Les Herdes an enthnographic surrealist film
  2. Ethnographic surrealism- intersection of art and anthropology
    Disassociation- juxtaposed images and sound.
  3. purposely used doco and ethno techniques to undermine its constructedness and truth claims.
  4. Monotone voice over that lies.
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Carnivalesque

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  1. A type of festival in which social hierarchies are suspended. People delight in crude behaviour.
  2. Sit com as carnivalesque, allowed to laugh at things not accepted in public
  3. The Office
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Situation Comedy

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  1. a comedy text usually based on a group of people, comedy from everyday interactions.
  2. Doco, moco techniques added to sit com genre, surprises expectations of audiences
  3. Friends and The Office- David’s interviews
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Comedy Verite

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  1. A self concious comic performance encouraged by verite style
  2. Mills, way audiences make sense of sitcoms, breaking expectations
  3. Movement of doco into mainstream, neither fully fictional or factual
  4. The Office- fly on the wall, hand held
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Linda Hutcheon- Parody and Satire

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  1. Differences between parody and satire, parody more affectionate, satire more critical.
  2. Parody- alleged representation of another text in a comic way
    Satire- a critical representation often comical of a real object
    Irony- directs decoder away from surface meaning- reflexive
  3. Combination, pleasure in recognition
  4. This is Spinal Tap
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Parasitism

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  1. A text that requires a host text or genre
  2. Linda Hutcheon- parody
  3. Moco are parasitic, require doco as a host
  4. Forgotten Silver- doco conventions to mock
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Mockery

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  1. To imitate in a ridiculing way
  2. Mockery that docos produce knowledge about the world
  3. Dark Side of the Moon- archival footage and fake evidence
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Mimicry

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  1. To imitate or replicate something with the intention of mistaken identity
  2. Linda Hutcheon
  3. To mimic documentary techniques in order to make a text look like a documentary, although intended to be recognised as a copy rather than real.
  4. Dark Side of the Moon
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Method Film Making

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  1. Film making style where the process of film making is severely reduced.
  2. Dogme 95 regime- Aloi.
  3. Creates a new sense of authenticity to a fake story.
  4. Blair Witch Project
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Handy Cam Aesthetics

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  1. Shaky, out of focus, out of frame
  2. DV realism
  3. Blair Witch Project
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Coverage

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  1. How well a particular scene is shot, framed, etc.
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Mock Documentary

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  1. A Fact-fictional form with a close relationship to drama and doco, referring to another text rahter than an historical event.
  2. Roscoe and Hight
  3. Mock docos destabilise the doco, but at same time reinforce it.
  4. Borat, more mocking.
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Fake Documentary

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  1. Do and undo the doco form, reveal fabrications of real docos.
  2. Juhasz and Lerner. Eitzen- reception audience much recognise them as fake otherwise they become real.
  3. Problematise authority and critique power. Ambiguous texts, uncertainty.
  4. Exit Through the Gift Shop still no one really knows if it is true.
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Rockumentary

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  1. A documentary based on a rock band
  2. Close associations with direct cinema
  3. Direct cinema made it popular
  4. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
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Hyper Masculinity

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  1. An image of metal’s masculinity as a fabrication and exaggeration
  2. Plantinga- Spinal Tap is satirizing this
  3. This Is Spinal Tap- Derek
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Hybridity

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  1. The amalgamation of genres to create a different genre with mixed conventions
  2. Mockumentary’s influence of TV genre
  3. Destabilises traditional genres
  4. Daily Show, Colbert Report. The Office
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Politicotainment

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  1. Denotes the ways in which politics are represented by the entertainment industry.
  2. Can be satirical, deconstructive
  3. Making light of serious issues, problematic when this is someone’s only source of news.
  4. Daily show, Colbert Report
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Fake News

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  1. A show that uses news reporting conventions to appear like a news broasdcast
  2. Daily Show, Colbert Report
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Infotainment

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  1. Journalism in which entertainment is valued over information content.
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Pew Survey

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  1. A fact think tank that informs the public about issues and trends
  2. 18-29 year old’s get news from comedy shows
  3. Complicates what they know to be true or not, implications on world of politics
  4. Daily Show- audiences more involved in politics
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Truthiness

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  1. Truth that come from the gut, not factual truth, instinct of truth
  2. Deconstructing idea of truth, satirizing what politicians call truth
  3. Colbert Report
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Edutainment

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  1. educational entertainment that uses codes and conventions of entertainment shows, intro music, skits, guest interviews etc
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Documentary Drama

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  1. Develops doco character with a fictional story as a reference.
  2. No mocking, Hollywood realism
  3. Danger that the doco style is the only link to realism. Historical issues personalised and emotionalised.
  4. Schindler’s list, Catch me if you can. In This World shows partly this.
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Dramatised Documentary

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  1. Has a documentary core but uses dramatic elements to enhance the doco conventions
  2. Highly stylised
  3. Exaggerating truth, highly subjective
  4. Thin Blue Line, In This World shows both
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Docudrama

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  1. documentary style in a dramatic Hollywood conventional narrative
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Post Documentary

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  1. Doco continues to be used in radical style
  2. Hybridity shadows and already established genre
  3. Doco style emerges across range of formats- TV
  4. The Office
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Discursive Intergration

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  1. Where discourses of news, politics and entertainment have become inseparable
  2. dangerous to realm of politics or may open up innovations
  3. Daily Show, Colbert Report
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Post Modernism

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  1. A movement reacting to established modernism like the Dogma principals
  2. Irony, loss of faith in knowledge, intellectual
  3. Borat- fails to do anything about the social injustice it highlights
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Pastiche

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  1. Imitation of style, imitation for the sake of imitation.
  2. Nostalgic, no criticism
  3. Anxiety about loss of authenticity, Baurillard
  4. Thierry’s work in Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Newsreel

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  1. a show presenting current affairs with certain established conventions
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Palimpsest

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  1. When text has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text
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Transmediation

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  1. Use of multiple media for one narrative
  2. No one text contains the full narrative
  3. Encourages audience to look across different media
  4. Blair Witch Project’s website
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Suture

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  1. A psychological process by which you are implicated to the film.
  2. Rarely used in doco, used in Hollywood cinema
    3, Doesn’t truely mimic how we see the world, yet it is used in this way
  3. Blair Witch Project- First person pov only, not given privilege
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Ontological Instablility

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  1. When the existence of something is put into question
  2. Calls doco truth claim entirely into question, and trust people have in docos
  3. Exit Through the Gift Shop- never acknowledges truth
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Dirk Eitzen Documentary as Reception

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  1. Documentary is simply what viewers individually perceive it to be, it is a subjective term.
  2. Assume docos are making truth claims and are presumed to be true
  3. Audience makes the meaning
  4. Forgotten Silver

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