Douglas,
Unfortunately, I doubt that the line I am following will be of much use to
you in thinking about fiction film. The "aesthetic of failure" is actually
a rather misleading term that refers, at least in documentary studies, to
the comic first-person routine of filmmaking & social incompetence one sees
in the films of Michael Moore, Nick Broomfield, etc. The concept of
"epistemic hesitation" has to do with the various ways that documentary has
tried to create more "open" forms since the advent of the observational
style in an effort to avoid "prefabricating" knowledge through a
heavy-handed, authoritative voice over, etc.
I have enclosed full bibliographic citations for posterity's sake.
Regards,
Matt N.
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Arthur, Paul. “Jargons of Authenticity (Three American Moments),” Theorizing
Documentary. Michael Renov, Ed. New York: Routledge: 1993. 108-134
Plantinga, Carl. Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1997.
Gary MacLennan. “Beyond Rhetoric (and Scepticism): A Critical Realist
Perspective on Carl R. Plantinga.” Film-Philosophy. Vol. 2, No. 5. March
1998. <http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol2-1998/n5maclennan>.
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