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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Documentaries"”.
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Mini-documentaries
… by the production of thirty- eight Mini-Documentaries for the Aspen Movie Map Project. The films are included on videotape.
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Traditional and interactive documentaries : an exploration of audience response to September 11 documentaries in different formats.
… In response, screenwriters have produced several documentaries on the tragedy. Likewise, scholars have studied extensively the content of documentaries focusing on 9/11. Literature lacks articles that analyze audience response to interactive documentaries. This study seeks to add to the literature …
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Mobile-mentory mobile documentaries in the mediascape
This thesis investigates the potential of and prospects for mobile documentary filmmaking. As a result of practice-led research, the city film Max with a Keitai was produced on mobile camera phones for cinematic projection. The feature-length documentary portrays the contemporary Japanese …
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Automatic Generation of Factual Questions from Video Documentaries
… the generation of factual questions from video documentaries has been developed and a number of evaluations to analyse the quality of the produced questions have been performed. The developed framework uses several readily available NLP tools to generate questions from the subtitles accompanying …
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Walkups : documentaries and commentary : a series of prose poems
… notions of self. Composed as a series of poetic documentaries, Walkups presents detailed, voyeuristic snapshots of the goings-on and mundane dramas that people enact within their private spaces.
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History, ethnography, and the nation: the films of Scotland documentaries
… 1954-82) produced one hundred and sixty eight documentaries on Scotland and Scottish life; the thesis is an archaeology of those documentaries. The thesis breaks from a film theory discourse that has marginalised documentary to argue that the genre should be understood as a cultural technology, …
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Evaluating interactive documentaries : audience, impact and innovation in public interest media
… to the experimental nature of these interactive documentaries, it is not yet clear whether the more active user engagements they require translate into outcomes like sustained attention, greater narrative comprehension, enhanced learning, empathy or civic engagement - never mind larger societal …
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Some current problems in the verite approach to film/video documentaries
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1978.
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The Romantic View of Nature and the Conspiracy Theory in Environmental Documentaries
This project argues that environmental documentaries of the 2000s promote harmful Romantic views of nature and produce overly simplistic knowledge about the causes of global environmental degradation through the use of the conspiracy theory. By analyzing the rhetorical and ideological features of …
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Awareness or complicity? : documentaries' depiction of communities marginalized by Christian Nationalism.
The rise of streaming services has made documentaries more accessible than ever before. With this comes the common misconception that the genre is based on truth instead of an interpretation thereof. Due to this broad misconception, it's important to analyze how the public comes to understand the …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
<p>Psychology and law researchers have urged colleagues to collaborate with the makers of popular media, such as documentary filmmakers, in efforts to educate the general public about wrongful convictions (Kassin, 2017; Wells et al., 2000). Recently, programs depicting wrongful convictions, such as …
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The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries
… and symbolic--in the discourses of making-of-documentaries (MODs) that illuminate collaborative creativity. As mythic patterns, MODs utilize the structure of the quest tale to organize the plot, drama, and rhetoric of collaborative creativity told in MODs. Audiences, then, are invited to …
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Fantasy-Theme Analysis of Food Documentaries: Contention, Collaboration, and Consultation as Health Promotion Approaches
… as a potential health-promotion tool. Food documentaries have become more popular recently, and the public's awareness of food-related health issues is growing. By analyzing different approaches to documentary films about food, I unpack the many functions and social perceptions of food with …
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Exploring Intimacy and Authenticity in Greek Folk Music Documentaries: A Hybrid Form of Ethnographic Filmmaking
This research investigates how Greek folk music documentaries can embody intimacy and authenticity through a hybrid ethnographic filmmaking approach. Based on a body of 34 documentary films aired on Greek Television between 2017 and 2020, the study explores the intersection of autoethnography, …
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An Exploration into the Criminalization of Indigenous Men in Canada: CCDA through Hubbard's Documentaries
… to, as the primary focus, Dr. Tasha Hubbard's documentaries Two Worlds Colliding (2004) and nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019). Hubbard's documentary films provide space for Indigenous truth and storytelling and are analyzed questioning the authority of state and media institutions while …
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Opaque Negotiations. A practice-based enquiry into the impact of fictional interventions on the relationship between directors and participants of hybrid documentaries
<p dir="ltr">Removed whilst thesis is under Embargo</p>
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Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
… the production of engaging children’s TV history documentaries. It could be helpful to, and applied by students, filmmakers, commissioners, educators, and anyone studying documentary making.My project explores how to develop an exemplar documentary/factual digital TV format, using elements drawn …
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Police work as entertainment: does the presence of the camera change the way police work?
Despite vast research into police factual documentaries, little is known about the participant experience, especially how police themselves regard the construction of their visual images. More recently, questions have been raised about the performance of police as actors in observational …
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Through the Fog of History: The Nanjing Massacre through the Lens of Documentary Modes
… of constructing history in Nanjing Massacre documentaries tell us about the shifting patterns shaping the event's collective memory?", this thesis explores two aspects of the Nanjing Massacre documentary films: the historical representation and the construction of the collective memory …
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Making Futures, Making Selves: The Future-Oriented Subject in Eco-Political Documentary Films
… While the genre of feature-length eco-political documentaries has been proliferating since Al Gore’s success with An Inconvenient Truth (2006) at the Academy Awards, feature films as production sites of discursive knowledge are only just starting to gain sociological attention. Located in the …
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