Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman's "reality fictions" and Social Change Journal for Religion, Film and Media

• मुख्य लेखक: Alyda Faber (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Schüren Verlag 2016
• श्रृंखला: Journal for Religion, Film and Media
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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'...