Item Detail
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24267
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English
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Does the Camera Lie? A Structural Analysis of "The Godmakers"
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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1985
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18
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2
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16-23
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"I am looking at the film in terms of its structure, or the way its essential elements are arranged. The narrative structure of the film suggests it is a documentary, a celluloid collection of documents considered as evidence in a legal trial. These are documents, the film suggests, that are real, factual, actual, and available for examination. Film documentaries have existed as long as the cinema itself. There is a noble tradition of cinema verite-- or 'film truth'-- which attempts to record reality as it is, unvarnished. This film-making approach assumes, of course, that we can know reality as it is and agree on it." [p. 17] "Using my own responses as a Geiger counter registering the peaks of emotional response, I conclude that 'The Godmakers' presents the wholesome family image of the Church and then reveals the evil beneath it." [p.23]