Word: grierson
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...Bruce Grierson is the author of U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life...
...John Grierson, whose monograph First Principles of Documentary set forth some of the genre’s initial conventions, took a more humanistic view than Hitchcock. He once stated: “In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real…is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound...
...this sense, Grierson, who believed in the use of “cinema as a pulpit,” is something of an ally of Moore, Greenwald, and their fellow partisan filmmakers. They, too, hold interpretation—the conclusions drawn by viewers—to be primary. But do these political films meet Grierson’s threshold test of “profound” interpretation? Do viewers of partisan films draw deep conclusions, or even alter in any way the convictions they held when they entered the theater...