Efekty i afekty w mockumentalnych raportach z misji kosmicznych
Effects and Affects in Mockumentary Reports on Space Missions

Summary/Abstract: Małgorzata Sugiera surveys a selection of films on space travel from the perspective of film strategies that use documentary conventions: the mockumentary and found footage. Describing how dramaturgy is constructed in selected productions (A Virtual Journey to the Planet Darwin 4, A Report from Europe, Apollo 18, and Dark Side of the Moon) she points out the extra-textual (real world) level, which is key to perception, allowing the viewer to make independent and critical reflections. Sugiera forwards the thesis that an analysis of documentary strategies used in the selected films opposes the conviction that we are living in the epoch of information; she prefers the phrase “the epoch of digital media” which change our perception and how we select facts, and affect our ability to form a critical opinion on the objectivity of scientific reports.

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