Television writing on current affairs and documentaries in the coverage of the siege of Mariupol

Abstract

The article analyses documentaries and journalistic videos about the siege of Mariupol during the Russian-Ukrainian war. The authors have reviewed and systematized studies on documentaries by foreign and domestic scholars. Ten documentaries and eight journalistic videos about the siege of Mariupol were analysed. The features of the films are identified, in particular, attention is paid to symbols, the image of the hero, and the image of the author. The features of documentaries and journalistic stories were compared by the following criteria: duration, method of collecting information, specific features of video materials, choice of characters, and journalistic techniques. The documentaries about the siege of Mariupol include footage of citizens from social media, journalists and photographers who took their archives out of the city, etc.