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dc.contributor.authorSlugan, Men_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-16T14:05:58Z
dc.date.available2021-06-16T14:05:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-01en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/72588
dc.description.abstractDespite fiction film arguably being the privileged object of film theory the notion of “fiction” has been undertheorised by film scholars in general and those working in German in particular. Perhaps the most important exception to this trend has been Gertrud Koch and Christiane Voss’ (2009) edited volume on fiction on the intersection of philosophy, film, and media studies. This paper tackles two of the most notable film scholarly contributions to the volume – Koch’s and Vinzenz Hediger’s – and their attempts to define fiction in terms of medium properties as well as their efforts to articulate all photographic films as simultaneously fictional and nonfictional. In the first case, I demonstrate that medium under-determines whether something is fictional or not. In the second, I argue that although fiction is a temporally unstable category, it is possible to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction at a given moment in time. I conclude with a call to applying Kendall L. Walton’s (1990) transmedial theory of fiction to film, by listing a number of its advantages over competing proposals and by emphasising its suitability for investigating the change in films’ fictional status over time.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofApparatusen_US
dc.titleTheorizing fiction in film non/fiction: Some thoughts on recent german film theoryen_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.17892/app.2019.0008.153en_US
pubs.issue8en_US
pubs.notesNot knownen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.volume2019en_US
qmul.funderMarie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship::European Commissionen_US


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