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Actuality Films

Actuality Films is a foundational genre of nonfiction cinema that consists of short, unscripted recordings of real events, people, or scenes, distinguished from other documentary forms by its primary emphasis on visual documentation without narrative construction, staged intervention, or explanatory commentary.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Actualities

Parents

Publications

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Returning to actuality: fukeiron and the landscape film

Yuriko Furuhata · Screen · 2007 · 42 citations

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Actuality and the amodal perspective

Olla Solomyak · Philosophical Studies · 2013 · 33 citations

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The Changing Landscape of Modernity: Early Film and America's "Great Picture" Tradition (with an Appendix of North American Landscape Films in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress)

Iris Cahn · Wide angle · 1996 · 21 citations

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Claiming the Found: Archive Footage and Documentary Practice

Vance Kepley, Rebecca Swender · The Velvet Light Trap · 2009 · 19 citations

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Re-presenting war

James Chapman · European Journal of Cultural Studies · 2007 · 19 citations · Full text

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Authors

10

  1. EK
    Elaine King

    University of Hull, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  2. VK
    Vance Kepley

    University of Delaware, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  3. YF
    Yuriko Furuhata

    McGill University, Canada

    1 publications · 42 citations

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  4. JF
    John Fullerton

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. OS
    Olla Solomyak

    New York University, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

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Institutions

3

  1. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  2. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  3. Swansea University

    Swansea, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

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Venues

  1. Film History

    2 publications · 23 citations

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  3. European Journal of Cultural Studies

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. Wide angle

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. Philosophical Studies

    1 publications · 33 citations

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