Film Language Tag: explorative position

Explorative positions announce or suggest that the film’s driving perspective is a scientific search into particular social, psychological, or physical phenomena. Informed by this position, a documentary assumes the perspective of a traveler, an explorer, or an investigator who encounters new worlds, facts, or experiences and aims to present and describe these straightforwardly, often as a witness. Corrigan and White, The Film Experience: An Introduction, 5th ed.