Living with diversity: what difference can film-making make?
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook
Publication Date
10-2009
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
9
Last Page
27
Keywords
Canada, Danish film culture, documentary film, film and cultural policy, globalisation, multiculturalism
Abstract
When it comes to meeting the multicultural challenge that currently confronts some of the smaller European nations, film-making has an important role to play. For a variety of reasons, documentary film-making has a particularly significant contribution to make. With its capacity to bring the concrete other into clear focus and its emphasis on basic epistemological norms, a properly assertoric approach to film-making helps to counteract stereotyped thinking while encouraging depth of understanding. In contexts characterized by thoughtful cultural policy, by visionary programming efforts, and by a clear sense of the opportunities that new platforms for debate and exchange afford, documentary film-making emerges as a particularly powerful means of both forging and strengthening the social bonds on which civil society be it local, regional, or global depends.
DOI
10.1386/nl.7.9_1
Print ISSN
1601829x
Publisher Statement
Northern Lights Volume 7 © 2009 Intellect Ltd
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hjort, M. (2009). Living with diversity: what difference can film-making make? Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 7(1), 9-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl.7.9_1