ABSTRACT

Interactive documentary theory has oversimplified concepts of narrative in order to accentuate the contrast between traditional documentary and interactive documentary. In doing so, there is a risk of imagining the interactive documentary as an impermeable and incomprehensible artefact, resistant to hermeneutic examination. This paper will show that by approaching the question of narrative coherence as a phenomenological proposition, a theory of narrative can be developed which is able to account for interactive documentary traits which are not shared with traditional documentaries. In order to reimagine the role of narrative in interactive documentary, the philosophical approach of Paul Ricoeur will be adapted and extended. Ricoeur’s combination of phenomenology and hermeneutics encourages a nuanced and philosophically rigorous approach to narrative, which helps us expand on the role of narrative in interactive documentary.

摘要

互动纪录片理论过度简化了叙事的概念，以突出传统纪录片和互动纪录片之间的对比。在这样做时，存在将交互式纪录片想象成不可渗透和不可理解的人工制品的风险，从而抵制解释学检验。本文将表明，通过将叙事连贯性问题作为一个现象学命题来处理，可以发展出一种叙事理论，该理论能够解释传统纪录片所不具备的交互式纪录片特征。为了重新想象叙事在互动纪录片中的作用，保罗·利科的哲学方法将被改编和扩展。