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Showing 1 to 20 of 1802 for “"Documentary"”.
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Mindful documentary
In the practice of documentary creation, a videographer performs an elaborate balancing act between observing the world, deciding what to record, and understanding the implications of the recorded material, all with respect to her primary goal of story construction. This thesis presents mindful …
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Towards Intercultural Documentary
‘Towards Intercultural Documentary’ is a PhD by Published Work that is comprised of four documentary films, an exhibition catalogue essay and an academic book chapter to form a collective body of work in film and text focused on what Rughani proposes as ‘intercultural documentary practice’. This …
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, the word “community” derives from the Latin roots: communitas and communis meaning “fellowship” and “common,” respectively. The word “amateur” derives from the Latin roots: amator meaning “lover.” A community of amateurs, who love to put on …
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Propaganda and documentary filmmaking
… Threat. The written thesis is an analysis of documentary filmmaking as a form of discourse. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, a French historian and philosopher, the two basic approaches to documentary filmmaking are explored: the observational documentary and the propagandistic …
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The Documentary imagination: an investigation into the performative application of documentary film in scholarship.
… research has been to discover new ways in which documentary film might be developed as a performative academic research tool. In reviewing the literature I have acknowledged the well-established use of observational documentary film making in ethnography and visual anthropology underpinned by a …
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Fairness in subjective documentary storytelling : A reflective essay supporting the documentary film 'Coming Home'
… and media savvy. They know that with any documentary, a number of editorial and creative decisions are being made often by a number of people working in a team. The question in this study is how a film can still be truthful, fair and relevant for viewers despite a clear bias on the part of …
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God Images: A Graphic Documentary
<p>This research is based on a survey of 107 graphically represented images of God collected from a relatively diverse population of individuals in 3 shopping centers. This writer hypothesized the existence of commonalities and patterns of similarity between God images across genders, ages, …
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W. H. Auden's documentary vision
… America of the 1930s, many artists turned to the documentary method for representing and interpreting social reality. But W. H. Auden came to question this approach in Letters from Iceland, Spain, and Journey to a War. All three works explore the powers and limits of perception. By offering …
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Collective Actions: Co-Creation in Documentary
Documentary media is generally associated with linear film, with the idea that it is produced by one author, with a creative and narrative approach rooted strongly in cinematic traditions. What falls outside this categorization is often dismissed as merely community-based or amateur—too …
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Reassembling documentary: from actuality to virtuality
… has led to an increasing degree of modularity in documentary media, "Reassembling Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality" takes up episodic documentaries and non-fiction films broken into distinctly conceptualized parts, in order to examine how the evolution of technologies transform …
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No Way Out: A Historical Documentary
No Way Out: A Historical Documentary is the written companion to a forty-minute documentary film entitled "No Way Out". The film deals with a 1974 inmate standoff at a prison in Huntsville, Texas known as the Carrasco Incident. The film examines the prison takeover through the eyes of those who …
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Documentary Film: I Named Her Angel
… in a constructive manner. The main aim of this documentary film project is to serve as a small step towards helping different cultures to understand each other better. This documentary film conveys the basics of Mevlevism by following the formal gatherings of a Mevlevi den in Istanbul, Turkey. A …
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Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives
… as creative decision method in observational documentary film practice and is based upon three films produced, directed, edited and published by the author: In Transit [2011]; Prosperous Mountain [2013]; and Pseudotachylyte [2019]. The films are created with digital technologies employing …
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The storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking
… between the storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking. This relationship is evaluated in three distinct points of departure. The evolution of the storytelling process from a traditional oral form of communication, by word of mouth, to its integral incorporation into the …
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The documentary mind: In the subject of a practitioner’s perspective on changes in documentary concept and production
… technology upon the practice and philosophy of documentary filmmaking. To assess the impact of new digital methodology on the film production process, The Musicians, a wholly-digital, 55-minute documentary film, was produced as an example. This music-based subject was chosen to specifically …
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Mama D's 2 Blocks: A Documentary Film
Mama D's 2 Blocks tells the story of a neighborhood home in New Orleans that was transformed into a distribution center and used to assist residents impacted by Hurricane Katrina's devastation in 2005. Mama D stayed at her home throughout the storm and remained there until the floodwaters had …
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Provenance in personal documentary: My Mother's Village
My Mother's Village is a personal documentary response to The Sri Lanka Series (1980), a series of ethnographic films produced by the author's anthropologist mother, Sharon Bell, and filmmaker father, Geoff Burton. Four women, a community of fishermen, and a dance instructor were the 'subjects' of …
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The Making of the Mini-Documentary: "Pockets"
… Arts and Education The Making of a Mini-Documentary: “Pockets”, the Concept, Artistic Process and Personal Reflection Chairperson: Karen Kaufmann In the making of my first movie, titled “Pockets”, I worked to understand documentary making by interviewing members of the community in …
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The Making of the Mini-Documentary: "Pockets"
… Arts and Education The Making of a Mini-Documentary: “Pockets”, the Concept, Artistic Process and Personal Reflection Chairperson: Karen Kaufmann In the making of my first movie, titled “Pockets”, I worked to understand documentary making by interviewing members of the community in …
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Diary of a Writing Project: A Documentary
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