John Grierson: Trailblazer of Documentary Film

A Review of the documentary film Shugendō Now

The Role of Computer Graphics in Documentary Film Production

We discuss a topic on the role of computer graphics in the production of documentaries, which is often ignored in favor of other topics. Typically, except for some rare occasions, documentary producers and computer scientists or digital artists that do computer graphics are relatively far apart in their domains and rarely intercommunicate to have a joint production; yet it happens, and perhaps ...

Crisis, Conspiracy and Rights; Imaginaries of Terrorism in Documentary Film

The dispersed character of terrorism as a practice became more coherent to the Western realm through the operationalisation of counter terrorist discourses. The media played a major role in that in the sense that they provided public ‘visibility’ upon the potentiality of terrorist threat. What this essay would like to discuss is the way such representations of threat negotiate a number of issue...

Artificial, Natural, Historical: Ambiguities of Synthetic Sound in Documentary Film

This paper discusses the role of synthetic sound in the construction of authenticity and historicity of documentary film in the light of the documentary “All that we have” [9] and its making. It argues that the delimitation between the “natural” and the “artificial” constitutes a key element in the reflection on documentary film sound. After a general inquiry of cinematic sound (part 1 and 2) i...

hermeneutics of paradise lost of john milton

از منظر ریشه شناسی ، واژه "هرمنوتیک" به فرایند قابل درک و فهم نمودن شی، مفهوم یا موقعیتی مبهم وغیر قابل درک اشاره می کند.علم ترجمه، قلب علم هرمنوتیک محسوب می شود زیرا مارا از فاصله ها و تضاد هایی که در امر تاویل و تفسیر موجود است آگاه می سازد( پالمر، 1969). در حقیقت ، ترجمه را می توان نوعی تمرین دشوار هرمنوتیک دانست که متضمن درک معانی متون و انتقال وفادارانه این معانی و ساختارها از زبانی خاص با...