CMNS 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dziga Vertov, Ethnographic Film, Defamiliarization
15 Feb 2019
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Ethnographic film & nanook of the north: different interpretations and show how film is open to different interpretations. Denis kaufman changed name to dziga vertov. Life in a day (kevin macdonald, 2011: documentaries that take place over a span of time in a certain space, many take place dawn to dusk (common organizational strategy) Vertov invented many ideas that have become popular and influential: database documentaries. Vertov part of group that formed in 1992. Defamiliarization: living in modern soviet union was so exciting that their documentaries were realist attempts to capture their experiences. Modernity: a process of creative destruction committed to progress and overthrowing of tradition. Radical transformation of experience of space and time. A complex response to the complex and often violent process of modernization. Avant-garde: deploys modernization of art to comment on social modernization; put emphasis on experimentation: can radicalize society, wrote manifestos. Important words she put on the board????: futurism, constructivism, surrealism.
