Discours en circulation et (dé-)montage filmique dans Fahrenheit 9/11

Abstract

Documentaries can be seen as a social practice of filmic discourse. They are essentially based on citation techniques ranging from vague allusions to exact reproductions. The present study emphasi¬zes a characteristic effect of Michael Moore's film rhethoric which consists in the use of montage techniques in order make –verbal, visual and acoustic– discour¬ses circulate. However, Moore's excessive use of discordant montage is eventually overcoming the standards of documentary film as genre. It leads to something new we would like to call docu-satire.