READING PASSAGE-2
You should spend about 20 minutes on
Questions 14-26,
which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.
Making Documentary Films
A
For much of the twentieth century, documentary films were over shadowed
by their more successful Hollywood counterparts.
For a number of reasons,
documentaries were frequently ignored by critics
and film studies courses at
universities. Firstly, the very idea of documentary
film made some people
suspicious. As the critic Dr Helmut Fischer put it, ‘Documentary makers might have
ambitions to tell the “truth” and show only “facts” but there is no such thing as a
non-fiction film. That’s because, as soon as you record an incident on camera, you
are altering its reality in a fundamental way’. Secondly,
even supporters of
documentaries could not agree on a precise definition, which did little to improve
the reputation of the genre. Lastly, there were also concerns
about the ethics of
filming
subjects without their consent, which is a necessity
in many documentary
films.
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