One theorist is Bill Nichols. He wrote a book called
‘Representing Reality’ which states that documentaries act as a source of
knowledge and the appeal of documentaries are the views of the world with their
social issues, cultural values, current problems and possible solutions to
these with real situation and different representations. Documentaries offer
pleasure and appeal and use rhetorical strategies and stylistic choices which
are usually unnoticed. Nichols believes there is a large clear link between
documentaries and history and contributes to the formation of popular memory.
The ‘Prospect theory’ is another documentary theory which is
by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. This theory outlines the way audiences
have to evaluate possible losses and gains in order to form a perspective on
what a certain documentary topic is portraying.
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