FILM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Edison, Tom Gunning, List Of Newspapers In Greece
15 Jan 2016
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Documentary beginnings ethnography and ethics lecture 2. Where to start? (musser: he argued that we always have to look at the pre-cinematic impulse: mimesis; the impulse to imitate life in its many forms. George melies: mostly known for his fiction films, but did do reenactments of historical events. Documentary and the cinema of attractions: authors: gunning and gaudreault. To summarize the cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator. It was an exhibitionist cinema that reveled into its own capacity to reproduce reality, to show reality in a different and very new way. Theory: ethics and ethnography: cornerstone of documentary; problematic, throughout the semester. The relationship between the filmmaker and the subject. Documentary wants to represent the world we live in. Ethics exist to govern the conduct of groups regarding matters for which hard and fast rules, or laws will not suffice. nichols.
