Higher truths and so‐called lies
Documentary's animated authenticity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7200318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meghanne M Barker (0000-0003-3399-1675, Department of Education, Practice and Society at IOE UCL's Faculty of Education and Society London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-38 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12315 |
| OpenAlex | W4392967636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 43 |
A masterclass in Serbia on documentary film debates creativity. Experimental and documentary filmmakers in the region assert the boundaries of documentary in order to transgress them. Creativity offers a means to authenticity, animated through viewers' projection. Approaching authenticity as animated rejects preoccupations with the mechanical indexicality of the camera. Rather than focusing on index as trace, the ambivalence of indexicality productively moves between representation and reality. This highlights two paradoxes of documentary: that fictional techniques create a real world and that individuals animate types. Authenticity is fragile. Documentary creativity celebrates this vulnerability, inviting visual anthropology to experiment, as well
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Documentary film · Literature · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Media, Gender, and Advertising
Woman, native, other
Representing Reality
Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition
Indexicality’s Ambivalent Ground
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
Theatres of Contact
Culture and authenticity
White lies
The Indexical and the Concept of Medium Specificity
Moving Away from the Index
Puppets, Gods, and Brands
Experimenting with Ethnography
Serious Play
The Maasai and the Lion King
The Limits of Authenticity in Vietnamese Consumer Markets
Animating Relations
Animating interaction
Intersubjective Traps over Tricks on the Kazakhstani Puppet Stage
Animation
Producing Authenticity in Global Capitalism
Authenticity and Anthropophagy in Kayapó Film Production
Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |