The Popularity of Documentaries
The Popularity of Documentaries The rise and popularity of documentaries is solidified within its ability, to educate, and inspire its viewers, whilst nonetheless, entertaining and engaging an audience. The immediate appeal of the genre is to the fact that documentaries portray a sense of authenticity and realism, that we often lack in more fictional stories that seek to purely entertain its audience. Continuing, documentaries help awaken new perspectives, and are often created in a form of activism, and hope to inform a wider audience of a specific subject matter and provoke wider conversations. For example, nature documentaries are a brilliant source and testament to woven storytelling and factual research studies together, to create a powerful medium on educating and raising awareness on the state of the planet. The success of ‘Tiger King’ sparked a significant rise in true crime documentaries, especially with the global pandemic creating the space to addictively binge t...
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