PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The relevance of the study is caused by insufficient scholarly examination of the Islamic manuscript book as an integral artistic object, especially during the key period of transition from manuscript to early print culture. The aim of the work is to identify the interrelationship between material form, artistic design, and genre content of Central Asian manuscripts. The research was conducted using a comprehensive …

Reference · Wikidata

nonfictional motion picture

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A documentary film is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries".

Book · DOAB

In the digital age, we often encounter analog photographs as things that – after having been stored away, lost, or even thrown away – are (re)found. The fascination with such found photographs is reflected in a striking way in contemporary essay and documentary film. Found photo films are an essayistic documentary form that has emerged since the turn of the millennium: Films that work with left-behind, rescued, or f…

Image · DPLA

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