Man of Aran

The docudrama has its roots in the documentary. The sense of actuality in Robert Flaherty s Nanook of the North and Man of Aran conveyed the idea of cultures quickly giving way to modem urban life. Equally important, however, these documentaries took editorial positions about those cultures, advocacy positions that were romantic but also represented a wish that the pattern of these cultures passing were not so inevitable a byproduct of modernization. These two elements—actuality and a social, or political, perspective on the life situation of the participants—link the documentary directly to the docudrama. 

Robert Flaherty directs his Synge-inspired film Man of Aran. 

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