Filmography of NRMs in Documentary Films

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Films

Short Films from a Small Nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Art And Architecture

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.The book combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad, drawing on Actor-Network Theory to emphasise the role of a wide range of entities in these processes. It considers a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many more. It also maps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war period, and explores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history.

The Listener’s Choice

2019 ◽  
pp. 628-649
Author(s):  
Ola Stockfelt
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Auditory Signal ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Music Teaching

Ola Stockfelt theorizes listening through discussion of a number of personal cases, such as listening sessions in his car and his observations during film music teaching sessions. Stockfelt suggests that meaning comes before hearing sounds. Listening involves listening for confirmation of what you already know and this allows us to complete the gestalt of a sound even when the full auditory signal is not present. Hearing something, Stockfelt argues, is a cultural conception of reality, and we usually merely imagine that we heard sounds first, whereas we really experienced meaning. The idea that we listen through meaning rather than listen for meaning is further illustrated in studies of storytelling in documentary films.

Discourses of Immigration and the Mediating Influence of Documentary Films

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hilburn ◽  
Lisa Brown Buchanan ◽  
Wayne Journell
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Films

scholarly journals Resignifying corporate responsibility in performative documentaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 105649262110050
Author(s):  
Martin Fougère
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Good For

Critical scholars of Corporate Responsibility (CR) argue that one way to make CR good for society would be to demand its full realization in subversive interventions, in line with the critical performativity objective of subversion of managerial discourses and practices. This paper studies CR-oriented performative documentary films, in which the main protagonists problematize business impacts on society through various interventions aimed to have effects on: (1) themselves; (2) the corporations they target; (3) the surrounding society; and (4) the viewers of the films. 23 documentary films that target corporate responsibilities through a range of interventions are studied, and eight different kinds of effects they have are analyzed. The documentaries are found to be enactments of critical performativity that resignify CR, through subversive interventions involving: (1) staged embodiments of subject positions; (2) the staging of felicitous conditions; (3) effective roles, genres and tropes; and (4) the use of ‘enlightened failed performatives’.

(c) Documentary Films

1946 ◽  
Vol a38 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Oliver Bell
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Films

Documentary Films for Social Studies

1940 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-78
Author(s):  
Godfrey M. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Documentary Films
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