Ethics and aesthetics: the role of indexing on reception of a movie

Abstract

From the analysis of the short film documentary A queima (Diego Benevides, 2013), we discuss the relationship between indexing, ethics and aesthetics in contemporary Brazilian documentary based on comments made by Noël Carroll (2005 ), Fernão Ramos (2001, 2008 ), Roger Odin (2012, 2005) on the delimitation of the documentary field.

Keywords

• documentário
• não ficção
• indexação
• ética
• estética.