This week we focused on the formal elements of preparing for our paper, mostly on quoting, paraphrasing and argument construction. For me what was most useful from this class was learning about the Harvard Citation format as I have not used that citation format before and need to learn it. The other aspects are mostly a good refresher as I have come off a BA in Film Studies so I am very used to writing papers of this nature. We were given a task to paraphrase a quote provided.
The original quote: The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
My paraphrase: Honess Roe writes (2013, Animated Documentary) that the authenticity of documentary relies on the perceived notion that it’s images are authentic and represent evidence of an event that has occurred.
I have also begun rewatching Blood Blockade Battlefront and taking specific notes for the show based on my thesis which I have refined a bit more. I mention how BBB uses crowds to convey Manuel Castel’s ludic nucleus but specifically I want to explore and show how BBB uses crowds as a symbol of the city and the city’s liberating (IE transformative) nature that the Ludic Nucleus idea explores. The definition I use for Ludic Nucleus is the one provided by Lawrence Webb in The Cinema of Urban Crisis : Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City “the city as playground, and ultimately, for all its contradictions, a place imbued with liberating potential.”