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THE DOCUMENTARY
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John Izod and Richard Kilborn
Defining documentary
The term documentary itself seems to have been
coined in 1926 by John Grierson the man usually
considered to be the founding father of British docu
mentary. Grierson not only outlined what he saw as the
defining features of documentary, but also reflected on
the purposes to which documentary could be put. For
him, whilst every documentary is bound to present
evidence or information about the socio-historical
world, it must be more than a quasi-scientific recon
struction of reality. The documentarist must deploy a
whole range of creative skills to fashion the fragments
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Modes of documentary
ClassIc British
documestaryNIght Mali
(19361
THE DOCUMENTARY
THE DOCUMENTARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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