Praise of Imperfection: [Rec] and the diegetic camera in false found footage films

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  • Rodrigo Carreiro Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2017.191.02

Abstract

Fake found footage movies are being massively produced since the turn of the 1990s to 2000s. The main stylistic difference between this group of films and the traditional fiction films is a principle we call diegetic camera: the presence of some apparatus for recording images and sounds within the fictional world inhabited by the characters. This article examines the approach used by the Spanish directors Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró in the feature film [Rec] to combine documentary verisimilitude and narrative readability, dodging the restrictions imposed by the diegetic camera.

Keywords: diegetic camera, found footage, film stylistics, Paco Plaza, Jaume Balagueró.

Author Biography

Rodrigo Carreiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Mestre e Doutor em Comunicação pela UFPE. Bacharel em Jornalismo pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco.

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Published

2016-10-11

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2017): january/april

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