CICLO: Science and documentaries in the Twentieth century

(25 noviembre a las 18 h)

Jean-Baptiste Gouyon

Abstract

"The emergence of a professional culture of wildlife filmmaking in Britain in the 1960s was accompanied by a redefinition of the value of artifice and intervention for the production of reliable and true-to-nature representations of wildlife. As long as wildlife filmmaking was part of the cultural space of amateur natural history, displays of non-intervention and self-effacement in the field were seen as guarantees of trustworthiness for filmmakers. But once a professional culture of wildlife filmmaking started to be developed to be part of the cultural space of science, displays of intervention and of the skilful use of artifice, become evidence of reliability for filmmakers.

This talk looks at this transition, focusing on two making-of documentary programmes, Unarmed Hunters (BBC, 1963) and The Making of a Natural History Film (BBC, 1972), to reflect on this transition in the context of the history of television in Britain".

Video: The Making of a Natural History Film (1972)

https://archive.org/details/TheMakingofaNaturalHistoryFilm

Jean-Baptiste Gouyon

Es profesor asociadoen el Departament de Science and Technology Studies de la University College London. Ha trabajado en la representación de la ciencia en los medios de  audiovisuales y los museos y recientemente publicaba BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough con la editorial Palgrave. Con este libro se adentra en la historia de los documentales sobre naturaleza en la televisión británica.

DURACIÓN: 57 MIN