Video and Resistance: Against Documentaries

the authors start off the the articles explaining how people
thought that memory or writing
wasnt the best way to retell the past, but when photographs
were invented all the scientests thought they had something
that could represent history without any form of bias. the
authors explain how this is not true and then they continue
onto the main part of the excerpt which is how
documentaries do not actually show the truth. They go
through three different documentaries and explain how
each is not totally truthfull it is just the directors interpertation.
The authors then mockingly explain how a typical liberal
documentary on a guerrilla war. at the end the authors say
that documentaries are not concrete history "but an independent
semiotic frame through which sensation has been filtered and
interpreted." Sontag believes that a picture can give
information butshe also states that they are unable to give a
moral stand point although it can reinforce an existing one. this is consistent with what the authors' of the earlier text
said. with the picture Piss Christ there are many different
ways to interpert the picture but people did in a way that was
congruent to their beliefs.