映像と言語の交差点～テレビドキュメンタリーの成立を形式から捉える～

抄録

    When we view Japan’s early TV documentaries through the lens of form (how they were made), we can observe a situation unfolding that might best be described as the collision of techniques emphasizing visual imagery and techniques emphasizing the spoken word. This paper seeks to elucidate this situation, taking as its cue the formalistic characteristics of the dissonance between visual imagery and the spoken word evident in early works in the documentary series Nihon no sugao (Japan Unmasked, NHK, 1957-64). This dissonance was born of the attempt of the NHK program directors, who theretofore had only produced radio documentaries, to subjugate visual imagery to the spoken word (the narration) when turning their hand anew to producing documentaries for TV.