The article poses the formation of discursive units in the documentary analysis in relation to the Group Temma from ECA (School of Communication and Arts) of USP (University of São Paulo) based on the theoristmethodological confluence between the bibliometry and the Archaeology of knowledge by Michel Foucault. It considers as the object of analysis the collection “Documentary Analysis: an analy...

In this paper we describe a model for automatically generating video documentaries. This allows viewers to specify the subject and the point of view of the documentary to be generated. The domain is matter-of-opinion documentaries based on interviews. The model combines rhetorical presentation patterns used by documentary makers with a data-driven approach. Rhetorical presentation patterns prov...

Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion [3] documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American Portrait Films released the film in 1987 featuring Nathanson?s commentary and footage of an abortion [3] of a four-month-old fetus [4]. The film also featured the testimony of women who had suffered following similar procedures. In Eclipse of Re...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

An examination of what is included and excluded in a documentary invites readings of the producer‟s ideology and what values comprise their intended audience. What if a production company in Germany produced a documentary in Poland in the late 1930‟s and made no mention of the German invasion? What if an American company made a documentary in Vietnam in the 1960‟s and made no mention of America...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, Listen to Britain (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it’ (2002: 306). This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative work between compos...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

A recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters, ‘Solar influence on winter severity in central Europe’, by Sirocko et al (2012 Geophys. Res. Lett. 39 L16704) claims that ‘weak solar activity is empirically related to extremely cold winter conditions in Europe’ based on analyses of documentary evidence of freezing of the River Rhine in Germany and of the Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century (20C)...