Documentary cinema and journalism: the correlation of definitions

Abstract

The main idea of this work is to try to understand the approaches to intercorrelation between journalistic activity and the creation of documentary films. The article contains an analysis of transferring the basic principles of journalistic activity to the creation of documentary films based on the classical definitions of these terms and the modern vision of this problem by practitioners and theoreticians of mediaculture. The author tries to establish the ways the concepts of documentary and journalism are correlated, identify their main similarities and differences, taking into account the specificity of the documentary genre of cinema; determine what can be considered a documentary film based on the results of the study of this work. The article contains an analysis of such directions of journalistic activity as the informative, analytical and artistic genres. The key features and principles of their construction have been identified. On the basis of the data obtained, the author tries to make a conclusion about in which of these journalistic genres the authors of the documentary work and which requirements for working with information in the documentary genre of cinema can be offered.