In the long history of Apple MacBooks, there is finally a touchscreen. That fact may or may not sit well with the ghost of Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and late CEO who once said itâs âergonomically terribleâ to touch a laptop screen. The redesigned 13-inch MacBook Pro is, of course, not a traditional touchscreen device.
adjective. noun. The definition of documentary is a film or television program that shows a story or situation truthfully. An example of something documentary is evidence that proves someone's alibi during the time of a murder; documentary evidence. A documentary is defined as a film or television program that is educational and tells a true story. An example of a documentary is the An Inconvenient Truth, a movie about global warming.
As you were talking, I was thinking of Bill Nichols' discussion of documentary film. He talks about discourses of sobriety in the same way that you are talking about edification films, and he links documentary to other discourses of sobriety, including science, economics, politics, and history.nconsciously embedded in these forms called documentary is the conceit of the real, which substantiates the truth claims made by these films. These general notions about documentary film produce a fairly limited understanding of what non-fiction cinema can be and do.