Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours; written work, 2 hours; individualized study, 3 hours
Catalog page 420
Prerequisites: upper division 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 veritÈ; propaganda; ethnographic media; the essay film; experimental forms; media activism; re-enactment;, and the role of changing technologies.