Documentary Is/Not a Name

Bibliographic Data

ID4300342
AuthorsTrinh T Minh-Ha, Trinh T Minh‐ha (corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume52
Pages76
Publication date1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOctober (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/778886
OpenAlexW2323424606
LanguageEN
Citations received40

There is no such thing as documentary-whether the term designates a category of material, a genre, an approach, or a set of techniques. This assertion-as old and as fundamental as the antagonism between names and reality-needs incessantly to be restated, despite the very visible existence of a documentary tradition. In film, such a tradition, far from undergoing crisis today, is likely to fortify itself through its very recurrence of declines and rebirths. The narratives that attempt to unify/purify its practices by positing evolution and continuity from one period to the next are numerous indeed, relying heavily on traditional historicist concepts of periodization

Art · Linguistics · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy

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