M.A.--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, Film and Television / Scholarly discourses on documentary film have focused on the debate between
documentary’s claims of ‘objectivity’ and ‘truthfulness’ versus the reality of its subjective
ontology. At the turn of the 21st century, there seems to be appreciation of the
constructiveness of documentary film. This development is taking place at the backdrop of
emergence of more subjective documentary films produced by a new crop of filmmakers who
do not shy away from exposing their subjective production thoughts and processes, contrary
to earlier documentary filmmakers. This renewed interest is interesting and points to
something that calls for an investigation in order to understand fundamental reasons behind it.
In this report, I investigate the relationship between this development and the concept of
‘Creative Imagination’ normally associated with fiction film. Particularly, the paper
investigates why ‘Creative Imagination’ may be understood to deploy aspects of realism style
which manipulates time, space, character, and characterisation, in the production and analysis
of documentary films. Through a production of a documentary film The Zulu Mask, this
report hypothesises that documentary just like fiction film utilises the logic of creative
imagination of the mind and aspects of realism style’ to mimic the real. Documentary and fiction, I argue are thus the products of the same thought process and desire.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/12592 |
| Date | 20 March 2013 |
| Creators | Derrick, Clifford R.O. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
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