CULS30002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Sync Sound, Sound Bite

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Cultural Studies
• Course: CULS30002
• Professor: Dr.Dan Edwards

Document Summary

Mainly large companies to state institutions that could afford to film. Disrupting narratives of nationhood: contemporary documentary in asia. The way this form has developed in asia region different uses it has been put to. Rise of critical, interrogative type of documentary that questions some of the basic historical narratives and societal assumptions that have been propagated by various states across asia in post-colonial period. Most common type of documentary up until 1960s. Gives priority to the spoken word to convey the films perspective from a singly, unifying source. Technological issue technology to record simultaneous sounds on location difficult, cameras heavy. Filmmaking also expensive in first half of 20th c. Emphasizes the impression of objectivity and a well-supported perspective. After colonialism, cont. to be used by states for nation building. Documentary not as tool of the state but representing alternative views that critiqued/ questioned assumption in mainstream media. Started making film mid-late 1960s documentarian student struggles.