Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman's "reality fictions" and Social Change Journal for Religion, Film and Media
This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. Here I develop the analogy of Wiseman'...
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2016
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