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Title: Reality Fiction


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Reality Fiction
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  • I'm interested in complexity and ambiguity
    Fred Wiseman

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Lecture Outline
  • Auteur Theme, Style
  • Voyeurism
  • discipline punish
  • Structure
  • Wiseman Baudrillard the hyperreal

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Theme, Style
  • control authority institutions
  • 1) medium to close shot scale 2) long take 3)
    subject matter 4) effacement of camera
    consciousness on the part of the subjects 5)
    continuity editing 6) no voice-over narration,
    non-source music, interviews
  • "internal" and "external" editing

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Voyeurism, Privacy
  • legal disputes
  • Details of legal history in Toby Miller article
  • High School (1968)
  • Primate (1974)

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Discipline Punish
  • Foucault Discipline and Punish The Birth of the
    Prison
  • micro-institutions of power/knowledge
  • normalizing regime
  • power, knowledge intervention

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  • identity produced within across institutions
  • Panoptic apparatus
  • surveillance discipline
  • dissymmetrical relations of power/knowledge

8
Structure
  • Every aspect of the film represents a choice
  • associational narration
  • sequences fold back onto one another
  • un-staged actions
  • Selection
  • point of view

9
Operation of the Look
  • recurring theme controlling power of the look
  • eyeline match - Exchange of looks
  • narrative structure
  • just another form of fiction -
    reality-fictions
  • Collapse of documentary?

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Wiseman Baudrillard
  • collapse of opposition between reality
    fiction
  • collapse of meaning, truth, reality
  • impossibility of documentary
  • crisis of representation
  • no guarantees

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unstaged events
  • William Rothman cinéma vérité in general, the
    noncandid, the nonspontaneous the theatrical
  • cinematization of the social
  • hyperreal - everyone is an actor

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Bibliography
  • Carolyn Anderson, Thomas W. Benson, Documentary
    Dilemmas Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies
    (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991).
  • Dan Armstrong, Wisemans Model and the
    Documentary Project Toward a Radical Film
    Practice, Film Quarterly, Winter 1983-84.
  • Thomas W. Benson, Carolyn Anderson, Reality
    Fictions The Films of Frederick Wiseman
    (Southern Illinois University Press 2nd edition,
    2002)

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Bibliography cont.
  • Alan Cholodenko, The Borders of Our Lives
    Frederick Wiseman, Jean Baudrillard, And The
    Question of The Documentary, IJBS Int Journal
    of Baudrillard Studies, Vol 1, No 2 (July 2004),
    http//www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol1_2/c
    holodenko.htm
  • Liz Ellsworth, Frederick Wiseman A guide to
    references and resources (G. K. Hall, 1979).
  • Barry Keith Grant, Voyages of Discovery The
    Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (University of
    Illinois Press, 1992).

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Bibliography cont.
  • Toby Miller, Historical citizenship and the
    Fremantle Prison Follies Frederick Wiseman comes
    to Western Australia, Australian Journal of
    Media Culture, vol. 7 no 2 (1994).
  • Bill Nichols, Ideology and the Image, Chap.6 7
    (Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1981).
  • Bill Nichols, The Voice of Documentary, Movies
    and Methods 2, Ed. Bill Nichols (Berkeley
    University of California Press, 1985).
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