Peirce’s secondness in true crime documentaries. Annotations on The Jinx: The Life and Death of Robert Durst by López Delacruz, Santiago Martín

“…Through the case study of The Jinx: the life and death of Robert Durst, a true crime documentary that has had important relevance in the recent public and judicial sphere, we propose to analyze the link between the documentary and reality from the triadic model of the sign proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, and specifically, on how secondness is a mode of meaning that gives documentary filmmaking the ability to transfer the textures of reality to an indexical level.…”
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The ethics of representation in documentary film by Lanza, Pablo

“…Unlike fiction films, documentary refers to reality with the intention of “expressing truth”, which is why filmmakers have an obligation to both viewers (that represented facts are true) and to the subjects / characters. …”
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Documentary film and genocide. Some ethical problem by Zylberman, Lior

“…Documentary theorists such as Brian Winston, Carl Plantinga, and Bill Nichols have set out two main axes around ethics and documentary: the duties of the filmmaker towards the spectator –in terms of truth-falsehood– and towards the subjects represented. …”
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