documentary film, n.All

Documentary film is an anti-aesthetic movement which necessarily sacrifices some personal capacity in 'art' and the pleasure that goes with it.

Documentary film is not, and has never been, completely governed by economic forces. It is usually born outside of markets, in the margins, far from centers of power, away from dominant media models.

Documentary film 1s 2ission is to educate and enlighten individual citizens and render them capable of rational decision-making.

Documentary film is distinguished from feature films in that, in feature films the director is God, but in documentary films God is the director.

Documentary film is concerned with drawing attention to an issue and not itself.

I just watched a documentary about knot tying. The ending had quite the twist

Documentary film is a discourse of sobriety, more about content, subject matter and information than form, style or pleasure.

Documentary film is less satisfying than fiction because it fails to give the viewer the same unrecognized return of the repressed, that is, the promise of fantastic unity and integration.

Documentary film is a fundamentally rhetorical form that can be reduced to a simple argument.