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The unruly extended family at the heart of "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" might have been the subject of an earnest, hand-wringing social-problem documentary.
"That's the problem with documentary films.
Novels think of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim tend to do it better.A related problem is documentary balance.
Onstage afterward, Mr. Gibney wrestled with a core problem for documentaries: how to present anonymous sources without compromising the entertainment and, sometimes, explanatory value of a film.
"The main problem with documentaries on television is where they are going to sit in the schedule, so Global iPlayer could go some way to resolving this," says Fraser.
The tool is supplemented by questions about the socioeconomic background, family history, school-related and health problems (basic documentary sheet based on the official German youth welfare statistics).
We would have no problem with a documentary investigating how a substance such as pethidine – a Class A drug like MDMA – alleviates obstetric pain.
The problem: A great documentary, like any product, requires more than a fancy tool.
One problem facing political documentaries in Britain is that they run the risk of being immersed in the insidious censorship of "current affairs", a loose masonry uniting politicians and famous journalists who define "politics" as the machinations of Westminster, thereby fixing the limits of "political debate".
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Setting the stage for a discussion of the implications of Google's proposed settlement with authors' groups, Lessig sets out the problems faced by documentary filmmakers when they attempt to license film clips rather than doing what nonfiction authors do when citing published texts, namely, relying on the doctrine of fair use.
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