ENGH 370: Introduction to Documentary

ENGH 370-001: Introduction to Documentary
(Fall 2018)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW

Peterson Hall 1109

Section Information for Fall 2018

ENGH 370-001 Introduction to Documentary MW 10:30am-11:45am Peterson Hall 1109 Cynthia Fuchs |cfuchs@gmu.edu This introduction to the study of documentary considers form, style, and subject matter, as well as aesthetic, political, and ethical issues. We'll watch movies and TV in order to address some key concepts, including how documentaries raise particular ethical and interpretive questions, during production and consumption. We will also ask: What are documentaries’ relations to news, reality TV, or YouTube? How is documentary political? How do documentaries tell stories, for whom and about whom or what? How do they create or convey subjective and objective "truths"? Films and TV might include the US presidential campaign on TV and the internet, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Faces, Places, Grizzly Man, Hooligan Sparrow, Hoop Dreams, Making a Murderer, Return to Homs, Senna, The Thin Blue Line, 13th, and Weiner. Fulfills Mason Core requirement for Arts

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Considers fundamental concepts of documentary form, style, and subject matter, ethical considerations, and theories of documentary. Includes close analysis of a series of representative film and television texts. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Arts
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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