Film, Parable, Reciprocity. Frederick Wiseman’s “Reality Fictions” and Social Change
This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman’s “re¬ality fiction” films only if that effect is understood as analogous to that of parable, an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. The irresolution witnessed repeatedly in his films is the reality...
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Journal for Religion, Film and Media |
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| Online Access: | http://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/pageview/1679288 |