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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:36
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Originally posted by Verto
The Merriam-Webster entry for documentary lists the words factual, objective.
The American Heritage Dictionary, when one does a search for the word documentary, says "presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film." |
Hmmm....so is that saying there can be no documentary films?
definition from Websters New World dictionary:
documentary: 1. consisting of, suported by, contained in, or serving as a document or documents 2.designating or of a motion picture, television program etc. that dramatically shows or analyzes news events, social conditions, etc. with little or no fictionalization.
that is ISBN 0-13-947169-3 for reference.
Which I find to be a utterly correct and valid definiton far more in tune with reality.
Maybe Verto needs to upgrade dictionaries.
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:36
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" The writers ....have been living in a world in which not only one’s life but one’s whole scheme of values is constantly menaced. In such circumstances detachment is not possible. You cannot take a purely aesthetic interest in a disease you are dying from; you cannot feel dispassionately about a man who is about to cut your throat. In a world in which Fascism and Socialism were fighting one another, any thinking person had to take sides, and his feelings had to find their way not only into his writing but into his judgements on literature. Literature had to become political, because anything else would have entailed mental dishonesty. One’s attachments and hatreds were too near the surface of consciousness to be ignored. What books were about seemed so urgently important that the way they were written seemed almost insignificant.
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose — a political, social and religious purpose — that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs. "
The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda George Orwell
A broadcast talk on the B.B.C. Overseas Service, April 30th, 1941.
document- something that furnishes evidence
document- to furnish with proofs, illustrations, descriptions, contention, et cetera.
propaganda- association or scheme for propagating a doctrine or practice (from the Congregatio de propaganda fide, the Catholic committee of Cardinals in charge of foreign missions)
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