Documentary film genre in film clubs. An approach to Zaragoza film club experience

Abstract

The documentary film was one of the favorite ones in the cineclub of Saragossa in his first years of existence, since they demonstrate the numerous meetings as well as diverse events (courses, conferences, etc.) that were turning on the same one. In all these activities, one was discussing the own ontological nature of the cinema (about his supposed realism and objectivity), according to his functionality, valuing the pedagogic usefulness of the image and the critical component, in contraposition with the cinema of argument (specially the from one the studies of Hollywood), destined to the mere entertainment and lacking —to eyes of many movie fans of that entity— of artistic qualities.