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The Interaction of Reality with its Representations

How to reflect reality is a recurrent philosophical problem in the subject of media studies. This problem is most pertinent to documentaries among all genres because they are frequently most concerned with authentically portraying the past. Many historians argue that the best approach to depict the past is to use video and to only talk about verifiable historical facts. On the other hand, Stuart Hall and Vilém Flusser have influenced this discussion by emphasising the significance of the audience in deciphering the message sent through visual and auditory media, such as photography and film. Many academics concur with these two thinkers in saying that alteration in the representation of reality is inevitable and what makes it subjective. Because of this, discussing historical events and understanding the deeper meanings and emotions they elicit require creative representations of the past.

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