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- Title
Keeping Company in Hollywood: Ethical Issues in Nonfiction Film.
- Authors
Richter, David H.
- Abstract
The article presents the views of the author on Wayne C. Booth's ethics of fiction and his concerns in the area of narrative ethics to the nonfiction films. He notes that the ethics of rhetorical purpose is applied to the final cause of the film which gives ethical quality for human flourishing. He asserts that ethics of the told applies to what is represented in the film, while the ethics of the telling covers narrative techniques on how to convey a particular story. He also mentions that the material cause is marked the key difference between verbal and film narrative. The author preferred the professional actors to act in the lives of the people for biographical and historical films.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ETHICS in motion pictures; ETHICS; DOCUMENTARY films; NONFICTION novel; MOTION pictures; FICTION; NONFICTION; BOOTH, Wayne C., 1921-2005; BIOGRAPHICAL films; HISTORICAL films
- Publication
Narrative, 2007, Vol 15, Issue 2, p140
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2007.0014