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Documentary film is a broad category of visual expressions that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.Nichols, Bill. Foreword, in Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (eds.) Documenting The Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997
Defining documentary
The word documentary was first applied to films of this nature in a review of Robert Flahertys film Moana (1926), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926 and written by "The Moviegoer", a pen name for documentarian John Grierson.
In the 1930s, Grierson further argues in his essay First Principles of Documentary that Moana had "documentary value." Griersons principles of documentary were that cinemas potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form; that the "original" actor and "original" scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world; and that materials "thus taken from the raw" can be more real than the acted article. In this regard, Griersons views align with Vertovs contempt for dramatic fiction as "bourgeois excess", though with considerably more subtlety. Griersons definition of documentary as "creative treatment of actuality" has gained some acceptance, though it presents philosophical questions about documentaries containing stagings and reenactments.
Flahertys contribution to the advent of the Documentary is itself to be scrutinised closely in a new documentary in post-production at University of Lincoln UK, whic read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary+film
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