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Title: Beyond the Frame: A Study in Observational Documentary Ethics
Contributor(s): Nash, Katherine (author); Williamson, Dugald  (supervisor); Croft, Julian (supervisor)
Conferred Date: 2010-04-09
Copyright Date: 2009
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9220
Abstract: Ethical questions are central to documentary studies. It has long been acknowledged that documentary practices have an ethical dimension for filmmakers, audiences and documentary participants. An ever-expanding body of literature academic, professional and popular speaks of a wide concern to understand and address the ethical issues raised by documentary filmmaking. Documentary ethics is a complex discourse, crossed by multiple and incommensurable obligations, rights and principles. The participant's right to privacy, audiences' right to know and the documentary filmmaker's need to tell a compelling story collide as filmmakers are called to 'weigh up' competing interests. Questions continue to be raised about the possibility of informed consent in documentary practice, appropriate levels of disclosure and the power relationship between filmmaker and participant. Despite the complexity of documentary ethics, this thesis argues that some questions fall beyond current boundaries. Specifically, the experience and meaning of documentary participation have not yet been considered. This research seeks to bring a fresh perspective to questions of ethics in documentary practice through empirical study of the practices and meanings of documentary production. In taking as its object of study documentary practice itself, this study seeks out the voice of the documentary participant, a voice that has too often been a central absence in debate in the ethics of documentary.
Publication Type: Thesis Doctoral
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 190201 Cinema Studies
200199 Communication and Media Studies Not Elsewhere Classified
220310 Phenomenology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970116 Expanding Knowledge Through Studies of Human Society
Rights Statement: Copyright 2009 - Katherine Nash
HERDC Category Description: T2 Thesis - Doctorate by Research
Description: Indicated in the Right of Access form, the author agrees to make the thesis freely available for all purposes including copying.
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