HNAR-344: Documentary Film

Credits 3
Instructional Method
Academic Level
Documentary Film is a survey of non-fiction films, most from this century, but all reflecting on concerns left over from the previous one. The topics addressed include the way people work, resist oppression, and invent culture; and, most importantly, how they have persistently envisioned utopia, often with results at variance with their intentions. Spectators and critics have at times declared the practice of making documentaries perverse or meaningless, yet these films continue to have popular appeal; indeed, the public's appetite for them only seems to grow as the notion of non-fiction itself threatens to be evacuated by advances in computer graphics, public relations, and cosmetic surgery. The genre has attracted filmmakers interested in everything from exploitation to edification; what their works have in common is a relationship to life as it is lived. Students curious about how our society came to be how it is today will find some answers in recent documentary films.
Requisites
Take HMN-100 Writing Studio, HMN-101 Writing Studio
Intensive or Passed Writing Prof Test