Documentary Filmmaking as a Social Work Tool. How to Use It Properly?
Documentary Filmmaking as a Social Work Tool. How to Use It Properly?
Author(s): Andrei Tache-CodreanuSubject(s): Social psychology and group interaction, Psychoanalysis, Health and medicine and law, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: documentary; filmmaking; interview; social work; psychotherapy;
Summary/Abstract: Documentary filmmaking as a social work tool can lead to great benefits for its protagonists, by triggering them a relief similar to the one experienced in psychotherapy. Moreover, their social case is able to reach a wide audience, contributing to raising public awareness that can improve the situation presented both for the main characters and their community. But the fact that a film will always have an audience that will transform it into a public spectacle could bring with it in some cases a set of dangers for its protagonists.
Journal: Revista de Asistenţă Socială
- Issue Year: XXII/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 111-116
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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