WL ARTS C184

Documentary: Theories and Approaches

World Arts and Cultures · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Designed for juniors/seniors. Documentary practices—early actualities, city symphonies, observational cinema, avant garde, and self-reflexive films—to introduce complexity and creativity at heart of this form. Key theories and approaches of documentary film. Analysis of how performativity, subjectivity, and ideology percolate documentary aesthetics and inform cinematographic, audiographic, and editorial decisions. Concurrently scheduled with course C284.

P/NP or letter grading.

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