UGC 211: Chapter 1
23 Cards in this Set
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Golden Age of Documentaries?
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1980
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What kind of world do documentaries address?
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The one we live in not one imagined y the filmmaker
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What do documentaries rely on to get their message across?
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Authenticity
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Become a flagship for cinema of
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social engagement and distinctive vision
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How do they speak about the historical world?
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They speak directly about the historical worldl
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Do they speak about people and events in a separate world?
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Ina shared world
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The people documentaries focus on are real or actors?
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Real epople
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Documentaries are dynamic meaning...
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They do not have a fixed inventory of techniques
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They offer us what ways of seeing the world?
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ALternative
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What conventions do documentaries rely on?
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Voice of God
Interviews
location sound recording
social actors
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Describe the problem solving form of organization
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This shows that the documentary addresses a problem, conveys background, and then shows the severity or complezity of the issue.,
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How do documentaries link together their story?
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They link it through historical facts rather than imagines (evidentiary editing)
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1930s
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Images held together with voice over recordings
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1960
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Lightweight cameras with more mobility. More interactive with social actors and more participatory
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1970 and 1980s
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Archival film material and contemporary interviews to give perspective to past events or current issues.
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Poetic mode
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Visual associations
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Expository
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Verbal commentary and argumentative logic
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Observational
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Social actors everyday lives
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Participatory
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Film maker and subject
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Reflexive
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Calls attentions to assumptions and conventions that govern doctrines
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Performative
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emphasizes subjective or expressive
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Epistephilia
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Desire to know
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Marshal evidence then use to what?w
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construct their own perspective or proposal about world.
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UGC 211: Chapter 1