Docudrama and the cognitive evaluation of realism

Torben Kragh Grodal

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90332-3_5

Docudrama and the cognitive evaluation of realism

Bidragets oversatte titel: Docudrama og den kognitive evaluering af realisme

Torben Kragh Grodal

Institut for Kommunikation

Abstract

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".

Bidragets oversatte titel	Docudrama og den kognitive evaluering af realisme
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film
Redaktører	Catalin Brylla, Mette Kramer
Antal sider	17
Udgivelsessted	Cham
Forlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato	1 jan. 2018
Sider	75-91
Kapitel	5
ISBN (Trykt)	978-3-319-90311-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-3-319-90332-3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90332-3_5
Status	Udgivet - 1 jan. 2018

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cognitive film theory, docudrama, cognitive reception processes

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