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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