As Anthony Giddens has argued, 'trust' can be understood as part of the
broader technocultural orientations which frame human interactions with
machine mediated events and/or practices (e.g the viewing of films and
television). By reducing questions of the 'authenticty' of documentary to
matters of what the director said she was doing, or to retracing the
circumstances of a filming event, allows us to settle local disputes about
the status of particular films. However, it does not allow us to tackle the
broader issue of the status of film images within contemporary visual
culture, from which these local disputes are derived.
Warwick
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Warwick Mules
Senior Lecturer
Film and Cultural Studies
Editor Transformations
http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 4702
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