More important, though, is their documentary function, as records of art that either no longer exists, or exists only as ruins, or as ideas never realized.
These two arresting images put the process of photography front and center, even as they undermine the medium's historical, documentary function.
Because of its ubiquitous and unobtrusive analytical, diagnostic, supportive, information and documentary functions, pervasive computing is predicted to improve traditional health care [ 6, 7].
Fred's documentary fulfills, with style, a classic function of the modern documentary film: to hear a voice in direct address and to see the face of a person playing his own role in life.
Any similarity to Mr. Moore's style is simply a function of how documentaries are edited, Mr. Alves said in the interview.
The title of Maren Grainger-Monsen and Nicole Newnham's film happens to evoke the function of many documentaries: enlighten audiences about world problems and make them feel a bit more hopeful now that someone with initiative is taking care of things.
They focus, with sober detachment, on the details of crime and the working of the criminal mind, expressing no more shock than would a documentary on the functioning of the Ford assembly line.
In this instance it established a principle, which has been built on by other political and documentary playwrights and directors, that one function of the political stage should be to make manifest what is concealed in politics.
Matthew Beals of Brooklyn, who is completing a documentary about Peeps, thinks the phenomenon is a function of the candy's iconic status.
In his documentary, Lee uses this to suggest something like a general theory of the function of clowning, and indeed of the function of humour more generally – it shows us, as it were, the limits of the community we inhabit.
