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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| 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 |
| 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 |
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