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• Title:
  Interactivity as a key feature redefining documentary reality
• Creator:
  Dubois, Frédéric
• Description:
  Finding a clear-cut boundary delimiting fiction from documentary has always been a controversial, daunting and unthankful undertaking. In the last decade, the blur between the two genres has been reinforced by the rapid advancement of web and AR/VR technologies. Interactive web-documentaries and virtual reality documentaries do not only promote new viewing habits – from swiping smartphone screens to scanning horizons with VR headsets, they shake up the very idea of what a documentary is. In this short scholarly essay, I argue that the feature of interactivity is the driving force redefining the documentary genre. This thesis builds on two case studies: 1) Interactive documentary Atterwasch and 2) VR documentary The Unknown Photographer. In the final section of the essay I revisit the definition of documentary reality and expand it with the addition of André Bazin’s notion of mise en scène.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Date:
  2018.04.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed Article
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 21 No. 30 (2017): Docufiction; 31–44;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 21 Nr 30 (2017): Docufiction; 31–44;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/12574/14060
• Subject:
  interactivity;
  interactive audio-visual media;
  interactive documentary;
  web documentary;
  virtual reality
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/12574
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text