Assertion: documentary | /r/CapableOf | exercise power
Facets:
value: by changing consciousness
type: MANNER
value: by their deliberate attempt
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: But the notion of "exercising power" sounds a bit heavy for most documentaries, unless we can agree that we mean that these films exercise power by changing consciousness, by their deliberate attempt to alter their viewers' relationship to a subject by recontextualizing it in the proffered time, space, and intellectual field of the film.