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In the words of Bill Nichols, a documentary film is one of the “discourses of
sobriety” that covers numerous topics related to culture, science, economics,
politics, and history discourses that lay claim to tell the “truth.” Nonetheless, a
documentary film like any other filmic material presents entertainment and
knowledge, art and document. Most importantly, a documentary film stands on
both sides of fact and fiction. The famously elusive definition of documentary film
set by John Grierson is worth mentioning here: a documentary film is the “creative
treatment of actuality,” Brian Winston wrote “Surely, no ‘actuality’ (that is,
evidence and witness) can remain after all this brilliant interventionist ‘creative
treatment’ (that is, artistic and dramatic structuring) has gone on. Grierson’s
enterprise was too self-contradictory to sustain any claims on the real, and renders
the term ‘documentary’ meaningless” (Qtd. in Breitrose 2002: 9-10).
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