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LAIKU ATŠALKAS: ŽURNĀLISTIKA, KINO, POLITIKA - Academia

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<strong>LAIKU</strong> ATŠALKAS: ŽURNĀLISTIKA, <strong>KINO</strong>, <strong>POLITIKA</strong>Vitaly Mansky(Russia), cinematic directorNEWS FROM A SAD DAYKeywords: Russian TV, documentary television films, formatThe author of this paper expresses his concern about the popularity of documentary films onRussia’s federal television channels – films which are of a high level of quality, but are onlymeant for “one-off use.” The author calls them “format” films which are not seeking to be artisticmasterpieces, but he adds that this harms the related, but higher-level genre of documentary cinema.Directors are choosing to produce feature films or format-type documentaries for television.The true documentary cinema is threatened with extinction, the author writes. In this televisiongame, emotions lose ground in relation to information. Manskiy wrote this paper in 2008.222

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