Knowing things and saying things: How a natural world in discursively fabricated on a documentary film set

Closely in tandem with Emmison's critical ethnomethodology, Baker looks at the way film crews and directors try to capture the ‘natural look’ of things in laboriously constructed documentaries. How is the ‘natural’ achieved? To answer this question, she turns to the rough footage from which a b...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 1989-06, Vol.13 (3), p.381-393
Main Author: Baker, Carolyn D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Discourse
Documentation
Drama
Everyday Life
Management
Videotape Recordings
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Summary:Closely in tandem with Emmison's critical ethnomethodology, Baker looks at the way film crews and directors try to capture the ‘natural look’ of things in laboriously constructed documentaries. How is the ‘natural’ achieved? To answer this question, she turns to the rough footage from which a broadcast documentary was edited, showing how crews manage their filmed subjects from take to take in order to be able to assemble a ‘natural’ discursive product from that footage, a product which tries to make the mediation of filming itself disappear as far as possible.
ISSN:0378-2166
1879-1387
DOI:10.1016/0378-2166(89)90061-1