Dead but still/moving the slide show and documentary, a space between photography and cinema

Taylor, A

Dead but still/moving the slide show and documentary, a space between photography and cinema

Taylor, A

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Publisher:: Australian Association of Writing Programs
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Text, 2011, 15 (11), pp. 1 - 21
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Taylor, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4739-2860	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Text, 2011, 15 (11), pp. 1 - 21	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1327-9556	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19025
dc.description.abstract	From magic lantern shows to PowerPoint presentations, the slide show has cast a long shadow on documentary film. In the 1880s the New York Police reporter, Jacob Riis, barnstormed America with magic lantern images of urban poverty, hoping to rouse sympathies and eventual relief for the city's underclass. In mid 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary woven around Al Gore's slide show PowerPoint presentation, screened to audiences around the world. This article examines links between the slide show and documentary. It argues that this connection is illuminating in thinking about the relationship between stillness, movement, cinema and photography. It also argues that a characteristic of slide show documentaries is their preoccupation with time, memory, mortality and death.	en_US
dc.publisher	Australian Association of Writing Programs	en_US
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dc.title	Dead but still/moving the slide show and documentary, a space between photography and cinema	en_US
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Abstract:

From magic lantern shows to PowerPoint presentations, the slide show has cast a long shadow on documentary film. In the 1880s the New York Police reporter, Jacob Riis, barnstormed America with magic lantern images of urban poverty, hoping to rouse sympathies and eventual relief for the city's underclass. In mid 2006, An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary woven around Al Gore's slide show PowerPoint presentation, screened to audiences around the world. This article examines links between the slide show and documentary. It argues that this connection is illuminating in thinking about the relationship between stillness, movement, cinema and photography. It also argues that a characteristic of slide show documentaries is their preoccupation with time, memory, mortality and death.

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