Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; written work, 2 hours; individual study, 3 hours
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Prerequisites: upper-divi- sion standing or consent of instructor
Description: Transnational survey of the documentary film from the silent era to the digital age. Topics include how to define nonfiction cinema; the social issue documentary of the 1930s; cinema veritâ; propaganda; ethnographic media; the essay film; experimental forms; media activism; re-en- actment;, and the role of changing technologies.