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Object representation: intersecting infant observation with observational documentary
British Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 533-553, August 2022., 2022 Between 1947 and 1973 a handful of ocularcentric psychoanalysts turned to observational film to inscribe infant subjectivity. In doing so, they significantly informed the field of child development. In light of this history, this article interrogates the construction of infant subjectivity on screen. It does this by intersecting practices of looking in
Jonathan Isserow
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 67-89, January 2021., 2021 Abstract In this article I analyse the primary rejections depicted in Herman Melville's Urtext on the withdrawal of complicity, Bartleby (1853), and Hito Steyerl's video installation How Not to be Seen (2013), which experiments with a Bartleby‐like withdrawal from surveillance through becoming illegible to machine vision.
Annie Ring
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The Big Short's Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address
, 2022 The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 1037-1061, October 2022.
Wickham Clayton
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Mockumentary Genre as a Cinematic Phenomenon of the Postmodern Age
Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Audiovisual Art and Production, 2022 Мета дослідження – проаналізувати форми художнього втілення мок’юментарі як кінематографічного феномену епохи постмодерну. Відповідно до мети поставлені такі завдання: проаналізувати порівняно новий для галузі кіномистецтва жанр мок’юментарі; дослідити передумови формування жанру, визначити формальні жанрові характеристики та специфічний інструментарій
Honcharuk Serhii +2 more
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Images, 2018 This close-reading analysis and interpretation examines the original form of Woody Allen’s masterpiece Zelig (1983). The author combines a film studies approach with an investigation of epistemological and semiotic reflections on moving images.
Marek Hendrykowski
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Även om det inte hände är det sant – Houston, We Have a Problem!
Nordisk Østforum, 2020 : “Even if it didn’t happen, it’s true” – Houston, We Have a Problem! Houston, We Have a Problem! (director: Žiga Virc, 2016) is a mockumentary film from Slovenia that stirred up controversy in the former Yugoslavia.
Sanjin Pejkovic
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The Human Chameleon: Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of Evil
Film-Philosophy, 2021 This article revisits the case of Woody Allen’s mockumentary Zelig (1983) via Friedrich Nietzsche’s diagnostic of mimicry in The Gay Science. It argues that the case of the “human chameleon” remains contemporary for both philosophical and political ...
Nidesh Lawtoo
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From “Discourses of Sobriety” to Deadpan Comedy: Christopher Guest’s Musical Trilogy
Angles, 2019 Christopher Guest’s fake documentaries about music are marketed as entertainment but they also raise serious questions about music history and the problem of authenticity. Working as a collaborative writer, director and actor in This is Spinal Tap (1984),
Charles Holdefer
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MOCKING THE PEOPLE: POPULIST AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICS OF SATIRE IN CONTEMPORARY MOCKUMENTARY [PDF]
Jurnalul Artelor SpectacoluluiThis article examines how contemporary mockumentaries critique populist discourse by appropriating and subverting documentary aesthetics. Through comparative analysis of Róbert Lakatos’s Whose Dog Am I?
Mihaela Florentina Constantinescu
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Humor and the critique of knowledge: A pragmatic analysis of Cunk on Life (2024)
DiglosiaAnchored by a theory of nine types of humor systematically proposed by Morrison (2008), this research aimed at analyzing types and functions of humor in a mockumentary series entitled Cunk on Life (2024).
Retno Wulan +3 more
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