Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985
This article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will pu...
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| description | This article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will pursue only one of them in the space available here. At a kind of metatheoretical level, it is arguable that Indigenous and Asian cultures are inimical to core values of the Western documentary project: in particular, to the belief in, and rhetorical power of, the material, historical word. In these societies, what might be called 'spiritual' or 'other' worlds have as much everyday reality as Griersonian 'actuality'. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74f80faf22024b978cd93b2411c984b12022-12-21T20:03:59ZengAsia Pacific NetworkPacific Journalism Review1023-94992324-20352005-09-0111210.24135/pjr.v11i2.1062Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985Philip RobertsonThis article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will pursue only one of them in the space available here. At a kind of metatheoretical level, it is arguable that Indigenous and Asian cultures are inimical to core values of the Western documentary project: in particular, to the belief in, and rhetorical power of, the material, historical word. In these societies, what might be called 'spiritual' or 'other' worlds have as much everyday reality as Griersonian 'actuality'.https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1062documentaryFiji filmpostcolonialismBritish Documentary Movement |
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| title | Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985 |
| title_full | Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985 |
| title_fullStr | Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985 |
| title_short | Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985 |
| title_sort | grierson s ghost never dies the fiji film unit 1970 1985 |
| topic | documentary Fiji film postcolonialism British Documentary Movement |
| url | https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1062 |
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