Journalistic documentaries on wars: from the information to the emotions
Keywords:
Violence, wars, documentaries, receipt, focus group, discourse analysis
Abstract
The work presents a discourse analysis of two focus groups composed by experts, after viewing the documentary " 20 years of Bosnia ". There appears a general panoramic of the questions that are provoked in the spectators of an audio-visual documentary of violence and human suffering. Results show a reception from the “situated” perspective of the spectators, the recognition of a great variety of violence and of their prototypes, a testimonial value of the reality, a moral evaluation of the presented facts and of the intentions of the emitters and a rich production of emotions on the persons who appear in the images, principally the empathy and identification. Therefore, documentaries possess an enormous potential of transformation of spectators attitudesDownloads
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Published
2017-11-20
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Fernández Villanueva C. (2017). Journalistic documentaries on wars: from the information to the emotions. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 23(2), 811-828. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.58017
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