scholarly journals Record. Reenact. Recycle. Notes on Shindō Kaneto’s Documentary Styles

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Lauri Kitsnik
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Common People ◽  
Realist Approach ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Everyday

In his work, the filmmaker Shindō Kaneto sought to employ various, often seemingly incongruous, cinematic styles that complicate the notions of fiction and documentary film. This paper first examines his ‘semi-documentary’ films that often deal with the everyday life of common people by means of an enhanced realist approach. Second, attention is paid to the fusion of documentary and drama when reenacting historical events, as well as the subsequent recycling of these images in a ‘quasi-documentary’ fashion. Finally, I uncover a trend towards ‘meta-documentary’ that takes issue with the act of filmmaking itself. I argue that Shindō’s often self-referential work challenges the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction while engaging in a self-reflective criticism of cinema as a medium.

scholarly journals DOCUMENTARY AS A PHANTOM

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Observer Effect ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Mutual Transition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Empty Signifier

The aim of the study is to reflect on the problem of the “documentariness” of documentary films based on the refinement of the semantic spectrum of the “documentary” concept. The definitions spectrum of the “documentary” concept in classical and post-non-classical film studies from B. Matushevsky, J. Grierson and D. Vertov to R. M. Barsam, J. Gaines, P. Lorentz, R. D. McKenn, B. Nichols, M. Renov, L. Ward (and others) is analyzed. As a generalization of these definitions, the author’s definition of “documentary” is proposed: the term “documentary” refers to a film not as an affirmative form of a completed film statement, but as an interrogative form of an open film gesture balancing on the verge of “truth” and “fiction”, as the continuity of an implicit mutual transition between non-fiction and fiction methods of cinema narration, a kind of hybrid between the video fixation of authentic facts with documentary value and their cinematic interpretation, which involves a reconfiguration of the reality caused by the “observer effect,” an interpretation of documented facts, and a creative implication of the ideas of the authors of the film. are a kind of hybrid between cinema recording of authentic facts of documentary value and cinematic interpretation of them, which involves reconfiguration of reality caused by the “observer effect”, author's interpretation of documented facts and creative implication of the ideas of movie makers. “Hybrid” genres combining the features of documentary and features of non-fiction film are described: “docudrama”, “mockumentary”, and the “art-dock”. The problem of the “documentariness” of documentary is considered with the help of a number of film cases from L. Riefenstahl, P. Watkins and R. Carmen to V. Mansky, S. Loznitsa and I. Khrzhanovsky. The main conclusion to the study is the assertion that there is sufficient reason to consider “documentary” a very abstracted “empty signifier” – a concept with a “blurred semantic field” and a “weak ontological status”. In general, the “documentariness” of documentary is as much desired as the shaky movie illusion: there are documentary shotings and documentary shots as the primary material of the film, but the “documentary” film as such does not exist, or it is a phantom.

Dust and Shadows … A Progress Report

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Russell
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article considers postwar British documentary films in light of recent curatorial initiatives and wider historiographical issues. The article places the BFI's 2010 Shadows of Progress project in the context of a wider and substantial shift of perception of non-fiction film in the early twenty-first century, which has caused the canon of British documentaries to increase in size, scope and profile. The article argues that archivists, media producers and the general public have played at least as large a role in these developments as scholars of the documentary film. The article summarises some of the key features of postwar British documentary as it is now understood and mentions other aspects of postwar, and other, British factual film meriting future research.

“The Bulgarian Taiga” of Komi in Naive Cinema and Poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-133
Author(s):  
Владимир Леонидович Кляус
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
The North ◽  
The Everyday

В статье осмысляется фотодокументальный и поэтический материал, посвященный жизни болгар в Коми АССР в 1960-1990 гг., когда они работали на совместном советско-болгарском предприятии по заготовке леса в Удорском районе республики. Видеоролики на основе фотографий из семейных архивов и стихи, написанные как воспоминания о жизни на севере в СССР, представляют собой своеобразную форму наивной кинодокументалистики и наивной поэзии. И именно это делает их важным источником изучения повседневности болгар - трудовых мигрантов The article analyzes photo-documentary and poetic material devoted to the life of Bulgarians who worked on a joint Soviet-Bulgarian logging enterprise in the Udorsky District of the in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1960-1990. Videos based on photos from family archives and poems written as memoirs of life in the north of the USSR are considered as a naive form of documentary film and naive poetry. This makes them an important source for studying the everyday life of Bulgarian migrant workers.

scholarly journals (Im)possible conversations? activism, childhood and everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas ◽  
Christos Varvantakis ◽  
Vinnarasan Aruldoss
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Usa

The paper offers an analytical exploration and points of connection between the categories of activism, childhood and everyday life. We are concerned with the lived experiences of activism and childhood broadly defined and especially with the ways in which people become aware, access, orient themselves to, and act on issues of common concern; in other words what connects people to activism. The paper engages with childhood in particular because childhood remains resolutely excluded from practices of public life and because engaging with activism from the marginalized position of children’s everyday lives provides an opportunity to think about the everyday, lived experiences of activism. Occupying a space ‘before method’, the paper engages with autobiographical narratives of growing up in the Communist left in the USA and the historical events of occupying Greek schools in the 1990s. These recounted experiences offer an opportunity to disrupt powerful categories currently in circulation for thinking about activism and childhood. Based on the analysis it is argued that future research on the intersections of activism, childhood and everyday life would benefit from exploring the spatial and temporal dimension of activism, to make visible the unfolding biographical projects of activists and movements alike, while also engaging with the emotional configurations of activists’ lives and what matters to activists, children and adults alike.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF VOLHYNIANS: FOOD, CLOTHES AND ETERTAINMENT (late 14th – mid-16th centuries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
M. Tarasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common People ◽  
Dance Communication ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Body Care ◽  
Natural Preservatives ◽  
Selection Of

In the article some aspects of the everyday life of Volhynia burghers and peasants of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 14th and mid-16th centuries are considered. The variety and variations of food, the types of clothing available to ordinary people, the concept of body care and health care, as well as the entertainment of the common people and places of rest such as taverns and baths are explored. It was discovered that the Volhynians’ diet was rich and included meat products, such as fish like carp, pike, sturgeon, beluga and even Danzig herring, flour products, seasonings and natural preservatives, which were bought at city auctions and grown on their own. By the middle of the 16th century, Volhynians formed separate ideas about medicine, where approaching Jewish or Welsh doctors were common. Usually, medicines were herbal drinks and ointments Examination of the body was carried out to identify the causes of the disease. Activities of local people were analyzed, such as dice, chess, dance, communication with other residents of Volhynia cities and villages, usage of prostitutes. In fact, depending on the success of the production sphere, the citizen or the peasant could afford a standard of living. It was found out that the everyday life of the Volhynian was relatively bright and filled with events and included the choice of products for dinner, the selection of a new wardrobe item, the discussion of local news after work, participation in lawsuits in ham, playing games and taking the glass of a strong drink. The Volhynians’ ideas of «unprofitable people», which had analogies in Western European countries, were singled out.

scholarly journals The Holocaust Journal of Miksa Fenyő

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Maya J. Lo Bello
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
First Person ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Techniques

For readers today, first-person accounts provide one of the most effective means of gaining an intimate glimpse into the everyday lives of those experiencing historical events. Diary entries recorded during the Holocaust not only individualize the process of mass extermination, they also preserve the words of those bearing witness to horrendous crimes. Yet should these written records only be interpreted as works of non-fiction? What literary techniques might have been employed in creating these depictions? Other than the period in which they were written, what characteristics may diaries written during the Holocaust share? In an attempt to address a few issues posed by Holocaust journals and diaries, this paper examines Miksa Fenyő’s Holocaust journal, Az elsodort ország [‘A Country Adrift’] (1946), written while the author was in hiding from June 22, 1944 to January 19, 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.

scholarly journals New Documentary Film Seeks to Be “More Real”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Manxi Li ◽  
Wenqing Su ◽  
Xinman Li
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Historical Origin ◽  
At Home

After the birth of documentary film, the discussion of “fiction” and “non-fiction” has not stopped. Influenced by the ideological trend of postmodernism, “new documentary film” overturns the concept of traditional documentary film and believes that it is feasible and meaningful for documentary to take “fiction” as a means. Adhering to the “new” exploration of this documentary, the author discusses the historical origin of new documentary films, the authenticity of new documentary films at home and abroad and the creative techniques of new documentary films, in order to provide innovative support for the true publication of new documentary films.

LIVING WITH HEPATITIS: THE EFFECT OF INFECTED SUBJECTS ON EVERYDAY LIFE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Life Change Events ◽  
Life Change ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Content Review

To identify changes in the everyday life of hepatitis subjects, we conducted a descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative analysis. Data from 12 hepatitis B and/or C patients were collected in October 2011 through a semi-structured interview and subjected to thematic content review. Most subjects have been diagnosed with hepatitis B. The diagnosis period ranged from less than 6 months to 12 years, and the diagnosis was made predominantly through the donation of blood. Interferon was used in only two patients. The findings were divided into two groups that define the interviewees' feelings and responses, as well as some lifestyle changes. It was concluded that the magnitude of phenomena about the disease process and life with hepatitis must be understood to health professionals. Keywords: Hepatitis; Nursing; Communicable diseases; Diagnosis; Life change events; Nursing care.

Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Point Of Departure

From a remarkably innovative point of departure, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) suggests that modernist literature and art were not the only cultural practices concerned with reclaiming the everyday and imbuing it with significance. At the same time, Roger Caillois was studying the spontaneous interactions involved in games such as hopscotch, while other small scale institutions such as the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London attempted to reconcile systematic study and knowledge with the non-systematic exchanges in games and play. Highmore suggests that such experiments comprise a less-often recognised ‘modernist heritage’, and argues powerfully for their importance within early-twentieth century anthropology and the newly-emerged field of cultural studies.

«Documentary survey» the everyday life of soviet teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-480
Author(s):  
Oksana Hodovanska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Everyday
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