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- Title
Der Erkenntniswert von Dokumentarfilmen.
- Authors
Ferran, Íngrid Vendrell
- Abstract
In this paper I will argue that the common denominator shared by all examples of what we call documentary film is their pursuit of an epistemic goal. According to this view, documentaries, unlike fictional films, are committed to reality. Against this background, in this paper I explore two key aspects of documentary films. On the one hand, I establish an understanding of the cognitive value of documentary film and, on the other, I explore a range of criteria for differentiating between documentary films and fictional films. The paper is divided into two sections. In the first, I examine the question of whether documentaries can be regarded as >documents< of reality. I explore different interpretations of the epistemic value of documentary films and I present the >re-presentation view< as supplementary to the >assertoric view< (Plantinga, Carroll and Currie) and the >understanding view< (Dromm). In the second section, I discuss the similarities and differences between documentary films and fictional films, and I develop specific criteria of differentiation. Here I introduce the phenomenological concept of imagination (Sartre, Meunier) and show how it can help in explaining the epistemic dimension of documentary films.
- Subjects
DOCUMENTARY films; IMAGINATION
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (ZÄK), 2020, Vol 65, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
0044-2186
- Publication type
Article