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In: | Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 7, 2009, 1, S. 9-27 |
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Intellect
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 9-27 |
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1601-829X
2040-0586 |
DOI: | 10.1386/nl.7.9_1 |
veröffentlicht in: | Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | Intellect (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>When it comes to meeting the multicultural challenge that currently confronts some of the smaller European nations, film-making has an important role to play. For a variety of reasons, documentary film-making has a particularly significant contribution to make. With its capacity to bring the concrete other into clear focus and its emphasis on basic epistemological norms, a properly assertoric approach to film-making helps to counteract stereotyped thinking while encouraging depth of understanding. In contexts characterized by thoughtful cultural policy, by visionary programming efforts, and by a clear sense of the opportunities that new platforms for debate and exchange afford, documentary film-making emerges as a particularly powerful means of both forging and strengthening the social bonds on which civil society be it local, regional, or global depends.</jats:p> |