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[…] Poetic- Poetic documentaries are subjective interpretation of its subject, they are about what someone likes. They usually invoke rhythm, and use beautiful shots and pictures. They are also of course bias. Whilst it is called a poetic documentary, they do not always include a poem or poetic narration. Poetic documentaries focus much more on “mood, tone and affect” – https://www.sothetheorygoes.com/documentary-poetic-mode/ […]
[…] “The poetic documentary came into existence during the 1920s. It combined cinema with avant-garde and arose in tandem modernism as a way to represent reality as “a series of fragments, subjective impressions, incoherent acts and loose associations.” People often attribute this to the effects of WWI and the “transformations of industrialisation.” There was an interesting honesty about the poetic mode as it would often be ambiguous or puzzling and refused to provide solutions to large problems; these features became very prominent in the sub-genre (Nichols, 2010).” – https://www.sothetheorygoes.com/documentary-poetic-mode/ […]
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