Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman's "reality fictions" and Social Change
This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. Here I develop the analogy of Wiseman's films as parable t...
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| description | This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. Here I develop the analogy of Wiseman's films as parable that I begin to consider in an recently published essay "Silence-effects: Frederick Wiseman's films as parables" which explores the idea of parables and Wiseman's films as "silent": disturbing narrative explanation and creating new possibilities of relation, human and animal. The present essay looks at Wiseman's filmic techniques used to intimate these relational possibilities (portraiture and, using Davide Panagia's term, "democratic noise") and contends that his unflinching realism effectively opens up a space of parable with its vision of reciprocity and more-than-reciprocity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-633542022-02-11T15:08:30Z Film, Parable, Reciprocity: Frederick Wiseman's "reality fictions" and Social Change Alyda Faber This essay argues that social criticism may be an effect of Frederick Wiseman's "reality fiction" films only if that effect is understood as analogous to parable, that is, through an awakened responsiveness to the unknown and the unresolved. Here I develop the analogy of Wiseman's films as parable that I begin to consider in an recently published essay "Silence-effects: Frederick Wiseman's films as parables" which explores the idea of parables and Wiseman's films as "silent": disturbing narrative explanation and creating new possibilities of relation, human and animal. The present essay looks at Wiseman's filmic techniques used to intimate these relational possibilities (portraiture and, using Davide Panagia's term, "democratic noise") and contends that his unflinching realism effectively opens up a space of parable with its vision of reciprocity and more-than-reciprocity. 2021-02-12T10:21:17Z 2021-02-12T10:21:17Z 2020-09-03 12:15:39 2016 chapter 47051 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63354 eng Journal for Religion, Film and Media image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/529-in-search-of-the-human-jrfm-2-2016.html https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/60 Schüren Verlag In Search of the Human. The Work of the Dardenne Brothers 5b80c228-3393-4862-a8e9-6c35a63484f1 f8f3246c-45a0-4678-8051-e8bd40e9094f 69-98 open access |
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