POSTMODERN, COGNITIVE, INTENTIONAL, INSTRUMENTAL AND SEMIO-PRAGMATIC THEORIES OF DOCUMENTARY FILM Cover Image

POSTMODERNÉ, KOGNITÍVNE, INTENCIONÁLNE, INŠTRUMENTÁLNE A SEMIO-PRAGMATICKÉ TEÓRIE DOKUMENTÁRNEHO FILMU
POSTMODERN, COGNITIVE, INTENTIONAL, INSTRUMENTAL AND SEMIO-PRAGMATIC THEORIES OF DOCUMENTARY FILM

Author(s): Martin Palúch
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Recent History (1900 till today), Pragmatism, Cognitive Psychology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: dokumentárny film; filozofia filmu; definícia non-fikčnej tvorby; filmová teória;

Summary/Abstract: The author compares and contrasts theoretical approaches which contemporary film theorists and philosophers employ in an effort to capture the essence of nonfiction cinema. He explicates postmodern, cognitive, intentional, instrumental and semio-pragmatic theories of documentary film as we encounter them in contemporary theoretical reflection, especially in works by Gregory Currie, Noël Carroll, Bill Nichols, David Bordwell, Carl Plantinga, or Roger Odin. Detailed attention is paid especially to three concepts/definitions/approaches to documentary production: Documentary as Indexical Record (Currie), Documentary as Assertion (Carroll) and Asserted Veridical Representation (Plantinga). The study aims to stimulate a discussion of Slovak documentary production that would reflect the current state of thinking about documentary film.

  • Issue Year: 63/2015
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 328-337
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovak