A new cinematographic genre: the documentary-catastrophe

This article tries to show the idea of what we call documentarycatastrophe, as a new cinema gender. Our focus of interest are two films of similar theme and different nature: the winning An inconvenient truth, by the former-vice-president of the United States, Al Gore, and the documentary of BBC, Ar...

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Autores: Tucherman, Ieda, Cavalcanti, Cecília C.B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/4091
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/4091
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Documentary
catastrophe
scientific aesthetics
Cinema
Documentário
catastrofismo
estética científica
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Sumario:This article tries to show the idea of what we call documentarycatastrophe, as a new cinema gender. Our focus of interest are two films of similar theme and different nature: the winning An inconvenient truth, by the former-vice-president of the United States, Al Gore, and the documentary of BBC, Are we changing our planet? by the journalist David Attenborough. In these documentaries the world is the main character, with a rhetorical and aesthetic elements capable of convincing and to fascinate the spectators, in a game of construction of destruction images that reaches in the visual heart our affection for this planet and this life, once so photogenic