This is some contemplation derived from my intensive watching of some of the Netflix documentary series during this stay at home period. I am also among the ones who binge-watched the whole series of Tiger King that Ray recommended to us, and it also has lingering emotional effect on me. The recent surge of popularity of TV documentaries, including Netflix's original documentary series is very interesting to me in terms of thinking about the drastic change in wider documentary ecology as well as contemplating some of the ontological characterizations of documentary texts and their contexts. When watching documentaries like Tiger King, I feel it has become more and more difficult to pin down documentary definitions within the concept of “discourse of sobriety” that originally come from the Griersonian approach to documentary. As the forms of reality-based entertainment have been proliferating, I think it is needed to investigate how this infrastructural change in documentary exhibition and circulation has formed new documentary aesthetics, especially in terms of the emotional or affective aspects of the interface of documentary texts and their audience.
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