Abstract

AGUILAR ALCALA, Sergio José. Spectacle, camera, authorship and surveillance in ‘found footage’. Contratexto [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.21-49. ISSN 1025-9945.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26439/contratexto2020.n034.4864.

This paper discusses the characteristics of films known as ‘found footage’ through the ontology of the cinematic camera, and the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, between the shooting of a film and the film itself, and between an explicit author and the enunciation authorship. To that end, the theories of Edward Branigan and Carl Plantinga will be essential. The films are analyzed based on these theories, aiming to understand the singular way in which each film articulates the universal issue of the genre: the gap between the enunciated content and its enunciation. This irreductible gap, as psychoanalysis understands it, is necessary to understand the kind of truth that may be found in ‘found footage’.

Keywords : found footage; cinematic camera; fiction and nonfiction; enunciated content and enunciation.

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