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Class Detail:
FA 2010 Screen Arts and Cultures SAC 621 - Seminar in the Theory and Practice of Documentary Section 001
Credits:	3
Waitlist Capacity:	unlimited
Lab Fee:	35.00
Repeatability:	May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit(s).
Primary Instructor:	Nornes, Markus
	(real time availability for all sections)

This seminar examines many of the social, ethical and philosophical problems and issues — i.e., questions of authenticity, representation, voice, authority, form and politics — surrounding non-fiction and documentary film and video. It explores a range of non-fiction film practices through the application of anthropological, historical, gender, and cultural studies theory to a range of genres including counter-colonial, cinema verité, direct cinema, ethnographic, instructional, historical, and auteurist documentaries. Topics covered include the boundaries of documentary/non-fiction discourse, documentary poetics, historical representation on film, non-western documentary and feminism, and the essayistic in film and video.

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