The Documentary Film: On the Aesthetics of Construction and Reception – Pioneering Scientific

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the aesthetics of documentary cinema across its various eras, delving into its structural features and channels of meaning. Each chapter engages with tensions between opposing tendencies—moving from the interplay of entertainment and utility to the contrast between documentation and fiction, to the dynamic between construction and reception, and finally to the struggle between resisting globalization and submitting to its logic. The documentary film, as presented here, adopts objective approaches grounded in argumentation and persuasion, drawing on diverse testimonies and visual resources to fulfill its purpose.