A person who creates or works with documents; a documentarian or documentary filmmaker.
From document plus the suffix -arist (a variant of -ist). A rare alternate term for documentarian, used occasionally in academic and international contexts.
Documentarist is the kind of word that shows up in French and German film criticism but rarely in English, partly because English-speakers settled on 'documentarian,' but also because adding -arist to words already ending in -ent creates an awkward double ending.
Rare variant of documentarian/documentalist; carries the same historical male-default association in archival and media professions.
If used, apply neutrally; prefer 'documentarian' or 'documentation specialist' for clarity.
["documentarian","archivist","documentation specialist"]
Same as documentarian—credit women's archival and documentary innovation.
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