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From:CineAction (Issue 97)In this paper, I will be considering whether we might think of "the uncanny" as both a mode and condition of contemporary documentary film. Drawing on Freud's famous essay, I want to suggest that documentary --something...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)The conversation about impact is an old one, as we know, thanks to the careful analysis of Brian Winston, particularly about the rhetorical games that John Grierson could play with funders and officials. (1) As soon as...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)Most of us think of the invitation to act in a film as a desirable, even enviable, opportunity. But what if the invitation is not to act in a film but to be in a film, to be yourself in a film? What will others think of...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)An artist of vast imaginative ability with an affinity for the fantastic, McCay suffered from a troubled social conscience, which manifested itself in the intrusion of reality into the world of the dream. (1)...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)Interactivity has variously been defined as a 'feature that is best perceived through use' (1) (Ji Hyun Park 2009, 540); as facilitation of '... communication rather than ... the technology of the medium' (Fernando...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)This issue was organized following the 22nd Visible Evidence international conference on documentary film and media held in Toronto in August 2015. This exciting gathering was hosted by Ryerson University, the...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)Looking at the thirty-thousand-year-old drawings found in the Chauvet Cave, Werner Herzog, in his Cave of For gotten Dreams (2010), guides the audience with his voice-over to imagine the Palaeolithic period. He presumes...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)This paper will explore technological developments in current documentary production, assessing how these are individually and comparatively immersing the audience in the film and the story and creating spectacle. The...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)A panel featuring Canadian Indigenous filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Tracey Deer, moderated by Jason Ryle, Executive Director of Toronto's ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and curated by...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)In 1993, while the death of Marxism and the end of history were proclaimed, Jacques Derrida showed the irreducible heritage--itself spectral--of the German philosopher. In Spectres de Marx, (1) by analysing the...
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From:CineAction (Issue 97)Six years ago, in June of 2009, with an oncoming election, Iranians were hopeful of the possibility for change. While incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was well liked among the poor, Iran's population was an...