This paper addresses Documentary Realism, focusing on the physical phenomena of transduction that take place in analog and digital audiovisual systems, herein analyzed in the light of the Sampling Theory, within the framework of Shannon and Weaver’s Information Theory. Transduction is a process by which one type of energy is transformed into another, or by which information is transcodified. Within the scope of Documentary Realism, it cannot be claimed that electronic audiovisual signs, because of their technical digital atures lead to a rupture with reality. Rather, the digital documentary, based on electronic digital cinematography, is still an index of reality.

Analysis of rockumentary films: Sympathy for the Devil, No Direction Home, I’m Your Man, Movimentos Perpétuos

Analyzing two films this article deals with the relation between event and documentary cinematographic discourse. Assuming that documentary cinema is characterized by the concern of proximity with te reality, this article discusses how such representation is constructed using the analysis of the discourse, in the thought of Paul Ricoeur and Patrick Charaudeau, and the questions of ideology and social space.

Full version of DOC On-line n. 1 theme: Documentary histories

The cinematographic "‘franquista"’ official entity NO-DO [Noticiero Documental] developed an abudant production of documentaries between 1943 and 1981. At the end of the 50s it looked for the participation of outsiders. This opening made possible the production of vanguardists documentaries during the 60s. In this article the first vanguardist documentary - intitled Tiempo Dos (1960), directed by Javier Aguirre - will be analyzed.

full version of DOC On-line n.2 theme: Reality and modes of representation

Departing from a material cultural studies anthropology, the paper takes film production and consumption as part of representational systems, analysing the city image of Porto as represented in six Portuguese films of the 20th century. Looking at what is filmed and how it is filmed, it highlights the main themes found in this city image production and discusses the role of film in the construction of a collective memory.