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Cinema and its ability to represent a staged reality

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Summary:This article is a reflection on the relationship between cinematographic discourse and reality: discussing cinema’s technical restrictions and creative possibilities to represent an impression of reality. This article emerges from the assumption that cinema’s technical qualities can only represent a technical appearance of reality which must satisfy certain cultural expectations.
Main Authors:Carmona, Carlos Ruiz
Subject:Documentary Representing reality Narrative Technical appearance Documentário Representar a realidade Aparência técnica Documental Representar la realidad Documentaire Représentent la réalité Le récit L’aspect technique
Year:2016
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Language:Portuguese
Origin:Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Summary:This article is a reflection on the relationship between cinematographic discourse and reality: discussing cinema’s technical restrictions and creative possibilities to represent an impression of reality. This article emerges from the assumption that cinema’s technical qualities can only represent a technical appearance of reality which must satisfy certain cultural expectations.

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