CAM 3075 Documentary Media
This course examines documentary film and video history, theory, and practice. Special emphasis is given to influential documentary genres and movements, such as ethnography films, political propaganda, observational cinema, direct cinema, experimental documentary, found footage or compilation films, and mock-documentaries. Readings and assignments explore documentary as art, industry, and especially mode of persuasive social rhetoric. The relationship between documentary and the social construction of reality will be central to our study.