DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TELEVISION
- Course
- COMM622 - DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TELEVISION
- Department
- Communication and Media Studies - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 10
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Prof. Dr. Jonathan Guy STUBBS
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This course will consider the history, theory and aesthetics of the documentary, both on film and on television. We will examine the tools and techniques available to documentary filmmakers, and consider the different ways in which they have been used to represent reality. The course will also address the political dimensions of documentary production, including propaganda, and will ask whether objectivity is possible within the form. Key productions for discussion will include: Nanook of the North (1922), The War Game (1965), High School (1968), Hearts and Minds (1974), The Thin Blue Line (1988) and The Death of Yugoslavia (1995).
DOCUMENTARY FILM AND TELEVISION
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Course overview |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Documentary |
| Week 3 | Documentary Pioneers |
| Week 4 | European ‘City Symphony’ Films |
| Week 5 | British Documentary and State Propaganda |
| Week 6 | Experimentation in Postwar France |
| Week 7 | ‘Cinema Verité’ and ‘Direct Cinema’ |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam break |
| Week 9 | Midterm exam break |
| Week 10 | New Political Documentary the US and Latin America |
| Week 11 | Personal and Reflexive Documentary in the 1980s |
| Week 12 | British Documentary and Television |
| Week 13 | The Popular Documentary in America |
| Week 14 | Contemporary Innovation in the Documentary |
| Week 15 | Documentary in the age of streaming |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Documenting the Documentary, Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (eds).
- 02 A New History of Documentary Film, 2nd Edition. Betsy A. McLane
- 03 New Challenges for Documentary, Alan Rosenthal and John Corner (eds).
- 04 The Documentary Reader: History, Theory, Criticism, Jonathan Kahuna (ed.).
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