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Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman’s “Reality Fictions” and Social Change

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dc.creatorFaber, Alyda
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-15T11:30:02Z
dc.date.available2023-05-15T11:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. Here I develop the analogy of Wiseman's films as parable that I begin to consider in an recently published essay "Silence-effects: Frederick Wiseman's films as parables" which explores the idea of parables and Wiseman's films as "silent": disturbing narrative explanation and creating new possibilities of relation, human and animal. The present essay looks at Wiseman's filmic techniques used to intimate these relational possibilities (portraiture and, using Davide Panagia's term, "democratic noise") and contends that his unflinching realism effectively opens up a space of parable with its vision of reciprocity and more-than-reciprocity.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.2:2016.2.5
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19440
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/60
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20626
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectFilmen
dc.subjectParableen
dc.subjectReciprocityen
dc.subjectReality Fictionsen
dc.subjectSocial Changeen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personFrederick Wiseman
dc.titleFilm, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman’s “Reality Fictions” and Social Changeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-15T13:44:22
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/60
local.source.epage98
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleFrom Social Criticism to Hope. The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
local.source.spage69
local.source.volume2
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118895184
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361201

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