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Copy Link : https://greatfull.fileoz.club/yupu/0231202776 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the &#8220pedigree of the real&#8221 and the &#8220pornography of the real,&#8221 they fail to activate their viewers&#8217 engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an &#8220us-watching-them&#8221 mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption.In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a &#8220postrealist&#8221 cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Bu&#241uel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.

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Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the &#8220pedigree of the real&#8221 and the &#8220pornography of the real,&#8221 they fail to activate their viewers&#8217 engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an &#8220us-watching-them&#8221 mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption.In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a &#8220postrealist&#8221 cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Bu&#241uel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.



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Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and

Scholars (Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges

for Documentary)

Sinopsis :

Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its

viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In

Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow

issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking.

She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to

the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War.

Tethered to what Godmilow calls the &#8220peigree of the

real&#8221and the &#8220ponography of the real,&#8221they

fail to activate their viewers&#8217engagement with historical

or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of

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