Docudrama and the cognitive evaluation of realism
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The chapter discusses aspects of the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of viewers' experience of the real in audiovisual documentaries with a special focus on docudrama. It analyzes the psychological strategies that viewers use to evaluate the veracity of documentaries - eg Tversky and Kahneman's concepts :availability, representativeness and anchoring, and discuss how these mechanisms will make different viewers have different evaluations of the veracity of documentaries. The chapter exemplify the viewer-documentary interaction by an analysis of the docudrama "The Queen".
Translated title of the contribution | Docudrama og den kognitive evaluering af realisme |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film |
Editors | Catalin Brylla, Mette Kramer |
Number of pages | 17 |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | Aug 2018 |
Pages | 75-91 |
Chapter | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-90311-6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-90332-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
- Faculty of Humanities
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