Week 6 Poetic Documentary
9/30 Beyond Argument: The Poetic Mode
View: Rain (Ivens, 1929); Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
Read: Nichols, “What Are Documentaries About?” (ID)
Read: Renov, “Art, Documentaries as Art” (DFB)
Optional: Helke, “Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday” (DFB)
Due: Shot-by-shot assignment (5%)
10/2 Direct Cinema/Observational Cinema.
Read: Saunders, “The Triumph of Observationalism” (DFB)
Read: Hall, "Realism as a Style in Cinema Verite: A Critical Analysis of Primary" Cinema Journal 30(4): 24-50
Week 7 Observational Cinema: Authenticity and Ethics
10/7 Observational Cinema and the Ideology of the Apparatus
View: High School (Wiseman, 1968)
Read: Nichols, “What Kind of Documentaries Are There?,” pp. 109-123. (ID)
Read: Grant, “Ethnography in the First Person.” In Documenting the Documentary (ed Barry Keith Grant and Jeanette Sloniowski) Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press (1998): 238-253. (C)
10/8 Ethical Issues in Observational Cinema
Read: Anderson and Benson, "The Myth of Informed Consent: The Case of Titicut Follies," In Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television (ed. Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby) New York: Oxford UP (1988): 58-90. (C)
Read: Pryluck, “Ultimately, We Are All Outsiders” from New Challenges for Documentary (ed. Alan Rosenthal) Manchester: Manchester University Press (2005)
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