Challenges of Documentary in the Age of New Media Cover Image

Izazovi dokumentarnog filma u doba novih medija
Challenges of Documentary in the Age of New Media

Author(s): Etami Borjan
Subject(s): Media studies, Social development, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: digital documentary; interactive documentary; i-doc; new media documentary; remediation;

Summary/Abstract: The arrival of the digital technology in the documentary has changed the existing modes of production, distribution and reception. Some film scholars see the digital as a threat to indexically-based photographic realism and believe that this feature is neglected or lost in the digital image. New media and technological changes have always been quickly embraced by documentary filmmakers from the early days till today since they provide more possibilities in filmmaking and also invite the users (viewers) to be more active. New media documentary comes out as a result of the interplay of different media and new technologies, but that does not necessarily lead to the crisis of representation, and the use of digital technologies is less radical and threatening to the nature of cinema than it was first voiced in scholarship.

  • Issue Year: 40/2020
  • Issue No: 04/160
  • Page Range: 699-711
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian