We on history channel!' : the representation of history in documentary film

dc.contributor.advisorChairperson, Graduate Committee: Ronald Tobias.en
dc.contributor.authorJones, Rex Allanen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-25T18:40:28Z
dc.date.available2013-06-25T18:40:28Z
dc.date.issued2009en
dc.descriptionThe Great Delta Bear Affair is a film that is part of the student's thesis project.en
dc.description.abstractThe representation of history in documentary film is problematic. Documentary's creative treatment of actuality and assumed fidelity to perceived truth is at conflict with the historian's pursuit of veracity. Ever since the dawn of photography, artists have manipulated images and compromised facticity in service to aesthetics and drama. This trend continued into the early days of cinema, as newsreel producers adopted a more liberal than literal ethos that persists in documentary to this day. Reality can never be shown just as it is even in the most simplistic treatments of the most banal subjects. The representation of history is not always as absolute as it may seem. Instead of ignoring or denying the authorship inherent in the representation of history in documentary film, filmmakers should embrace it and reflexively provide glimpses of the cinematic process that forms their particular construction of reality. I will argue that the best way to accomplish this goal is to employ the performative mode of documentary representation, which gives the viewer a context to think about the film as a version of history, not necessarily the version of it.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/1584en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMontana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architectureen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2009 by Rex Allan Jonesen
dc.subject.lcshRoosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919en
dc.subject.lcshCollier, Holten
dc.subject.lcshTeddy bearsen
dc.subject.lcshPerforming artsen
dc.subject.lcshDocumentary filmsen
dc.titleWe on history channel!' : the representation of history in documentary filmen
dc.title.alternativeThe Great Delta Bear Affairen
dc.typeThesisen
mus.relation.departmentFilm & Photography.en_US
thesis.catalog.ckey1429451en
thesis.degree.committeemembersMembers, Graduate Committee: Phil Savoie; Dennis Aigen
thesis.degree.departmentFilm & Photography.en
thesis.degree.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.nameMFAen
thesis.format.extentfirstpage1en
thesis.format.extentlastpage35en

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