Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985

This article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will p...

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Autor principal:	Philip Robertson
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2005
Materias:	documentary Fiji film postcolonialism British Documentary Movement Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:74f80faf22024b978cd93b2411c984b12021-12-02T10:34:34ZGrierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-198510.24135/pjr.v11i2.10621023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/74f80faf22024b978cd93b2411c984b12005-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1062https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 This article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will pursue only one of them in the space available here. At a kind of metatheoretical level, it is arguable that Indigenous and Asian cultures are inimical to core values of the Western documentary project: in particular, to the belief in, and rhetorical power of, the material, historical word. In these societies, what might be called 'spiritual' or 'other' worlds have as much everyday reality as Griersonian 'actuality'. Philip RobertsonAsia Pacific NetworkarticledocumentaryFiji filmpostcolonialismBritish Documentary MovementCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2005)
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description	This article exlpores what happens when a documentary film form developed within a specific social, ideological, institutoinal, and aesthetic context—namely, the so-called British Documentary Movement, under the aegis of John Grierson—is deployed in several layers of argument involved, but I will pursue only one of them in the space available here. At a kind of metatheoretical level, it is arguable that Indigenous and Asian cultures are inimical to core values of the Western documentary project: in particular, to the belief in, and rhetorical power of, the material, historical word. In these societies, what might be called 'spiritual' or 'other' worlds have as much everyday reality as Griersonian 'actuality'.
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Grierson's ghost never dies: The Fiji Film Unit 1970-1985

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