Dramaturgy and Storytelling for Documentaries
A co-presentation by the German Department and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto
Stutterheim talk poster
FREE ADMISSION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010
4 P.M.
ROOM 222, INNIS COLLEGE,
2 SUSSEX AVENUE, TORONTO
Dr. Kerstin Stutterheim, Visiting Professor
Professor of Media Studies, Dramaturgy, and Aesthetics, DAAD
Director of the Institute for Artistic Research at
the Konrad Wolf School of Film and Television in Potsdam
Dramaturgy for documentaries?
As everyone knows, documentaries aren’t based on screenplays but on questions, research, and the lives of real people. Nevertheless every filmmaker is a kind of storyteller and wants to reach and touch the audience. Dramaturgy for documentaries is based on classical narratology but has specific genre elements:
theme and structure; event and collision;
dramatic and aesthetic conflict; editing and time / the chronotopos;
social actors and characters
If you require special accommodations, please contact 416-978-2510. There is a wheelchair accessible entrance on Sussex, east doors.