1、 1850 单词， 9700 英文字符 ， 3450汉字 出处： Shapiro A L. How Real Is the Reality in Documentary Film?J. History and Theory, 1997, 36(4):80-101. HOW REAL IS THE REALITY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM? JILL GODMILOW, IN CONVERSATION WITH ANN-LOUIS E SHAPIRO ABSTRACT Documentary film, in the words of Bill Nichols, is one of
2、 the “discourses of sobriety” that include science, economics, politics, and historydiscourses that claim to describe the “real,” to tell the truth. Yet documentary film, in more obvious ways than does history, straddles the categories of fact and fiction, art and do cument, entertainment and knowle
3、dge. And the visual languages with which it operates have quite different effects than does the written text. In the following interview conducted during the winter of 1997, historian Ann-Louise Shapiro raises questions about genrethe relationship of form to con-tent and meaningwith documentary film
4、maker Jill Godmilow. In order to explore the possibilities and constraints of non-fiction film as a medium for representing history, Godmilow was asked: What are the strategies and techniques by which documentary films make meaning? In representing historical events, how does a non-fiction filmmaker
5、 think about accuracy? authenticity ? invention? What are the criteria you have in mind when you call a film like The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl “dishonest”? How does the tension between making art and making history affect documentary filmmaking? Should documentary filmmakers thin
6、k of themselves, in the phrase of Ken Burns, as “tribal storytellers”? What kind of historical consciousness is produced by documentary film? We have been speaking about documentary film. I want to start with a ques-tion about the word documentary. How comfortable are you using that label? I do use it, for convenience, but I hate it. Why? Because everybody thinks they know what the term means, because everybody has seen some television pro-grams labeled documentaryeither televisual “whi
