Emotions, Activism and Documentary Storytelling: A Biographical Production-Based Case Study

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Emotions-History Culture Society Pub Date : 2021-07-13 DOI:10.1163/2208522X-02010116
T. Murray
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The biography of Douglas Grant (c.1885–1951) has been publicly and popularly told in media since 1916. Interestingly, Grant’s unusual life-story has consistently been deployed to serve various political agendas. This essay examines the role of popular-media biographies of Douglas Grant and the emotions embedded in them, and utilises a documentary-film production as a case study to examine relations between these emotions, activist agendas and documentary-film storytelling. Additionally, given the consistent use of tragedy as a formal narrative structure employed in tellings of Douglas Grant’s story, this essay also describes how narrative structures are not culturally neutral, but are themselves emotionally suggestive cultural productions. Analysing a century of tellings of the Douglas Grant biography, this essay also offers insights into how conquest-colonial ideology is manifest in these often ‘tragic’ tales. As an attempt at decolonising scholarship, this essay also responds to insights by Indigenous commentators within the case-study text to reflect on Indigenous ontologies and the role of Country and Indigenous futurism as places/sites/histories of hope.
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情感、行动主义和纪录片叙事:基于传记制作的案例研究
自1916年以来,道格拉斯·格兰特(c.1885-1951)的传记一直在媒体上公开和普及。有趣的是,格兰特不寻常的人生故事一直被用来为各种政治议程服务。本文考察了大众媒体对道格拉斯·格兰特传记的作用以及其中蕴含的情感,并以一部纪录片制作为例,研究了这些情感、激进主义议程和纪录片叙事之间的关系。此外,鉴于在道格拉斯·格兰特的故事中一直使用悲剧作为正式的叙事结构,本文还描述了叙事结构如何不是文化中立的,而是情感暗示的文化产物。通过对道格拉斯·格兰特传记长达一个世纪的叙述分析,本文也提供了关于征服殖民意识形态如何在这些通常是“悲剧”的故事中体现出来的见解。作为一种非殖民化学术的尝试,本文也回应了案例研究文本中土著评论员的见解,以反思土著本体论以及国家和土著未来主义作为希望的场所/地点/历史的作用。
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