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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Documentary Filmmaking"”.
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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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Documentary filmmaking as an ethical practice: looking for life stories
In this context statement, Documentary Filmmaking as an Ethical Practice: Looking for Life Stories, I look back over two decades of my own media practice and draw concrete lessons from the experiences I had, as I faced ethical dilemmas while working. Conventional documentary too often falls into …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
In recent years, French documentary filmmakers have recorded the impact globalization has had on their society; the corpus presented here gives evidence of a shared effort to question the political and ideological affiliations of a practice largely committed to leftist ideals throughout most of the …
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First-person documentary filmmaking : an ethical act or an act of betrayal?
… running through this thesis is whether the documentary filmmaker’s very act of filming betrays the filmed person - and whether first-person filmmaking can be an ethical act rather than an act of betrayal. I am a self-reflective researcher and practitioner with a background in filmmaking and …
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‘My’ self on camera: first person DV documentary filmmaking in twentyfirst century China
This project explores first person DV documentary filmmaking practice in China in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Building on existing studies of first person filmmaking in the West, which predominantly analyse filmic self-representation on the textual level, this study addresses two …
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The Intersections of Social Activism, Collective Identity, and Artistic Expression in Documentary Filmmaking
… movements, but few have studied the unique role documentary films play in inspiring activism and disseminating the agendas of new social movements. With this in mind, I studied how political strategies and artistic expressions intersect within the documentary filmmaking industry. Drawing from …
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Village Tales: an exploration of he potential of participatory documentary filmmaking in rural India.
This is a PhD by practice, consisting of a documentary film, Village Tales, and an accompanying thesis; I locate my practice in the context of documentary and participatory filmmaking. In this research I want, as an experienced documentary filmmaker, to bring together the techniques of both …
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The Art of Fact: An exploration of the relationship between theory and practice in documentary filmmaking
… the ways in which theory can inform practice in documentary filmmaking. Section 1 of the thesis provides an embedded review of literature in order to offer the reader a critical evaluation of the theoretical debates that have informed my documentary practice. This section analyses issues …
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“We don’t have to carry the shame”: Autobiographical documentary filmmaking as a collective healing artifact for child abuse survivors
… at the intersection between autobiographical documentary theory and child abuse-related trauma theory, this thesis explores the wellbeing outcomes and impacts for child abuse survivors who create and view autobiographical documentaries that represent discourses about child abuse, …
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Relationships behind the camera: addressing the influence of the Thai cultural context on the relationship between filmmaker and participant in documentary filmmaking
… between Thai filmmakers and Thai participants in documentary filmmaking. I was attempting to understand and conceptualise what kind of relationships are formed behind the camera and what the dynamics are. Furthermore, it explores how being Thai influences the development of relationships. employed …
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"Black, not grey : Ankara rocks!" : a creative practice-based investigation of the Ankara rock music scene of the 1980s and the 1990s through documentary filmmaking
… audiovisual component is the feature length documentary, titled Black, Not Grey: Ankara Rocks!, which investigates the Ankara rock music scene, and the relationship between the city and rock music, in the above-mentioned period in Ankara. This occurs through personal recollections and …
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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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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
… class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production. It investigates documentary filmmaking as creative labour by using interview, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis. The methods allow analysing experiences of class and gender and modes of articulating them. …
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Encounters in documentary practice: a narrative hermeneutic inquiry with undergraduate first-time filmmakers.
… examines the ways in which students encounter documentary practices as first-time filmmakers. I argue that documentary filmmaking should be seen as a complex creative practice characterised by ethical and practical dilemmas which practitioners face. Whilst such practice clearly involves …
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Houses on Hudson: Using Documentary Film to Explore Exclusionary Zoning and Affordable Housing Development in the New York Suburbs
In this thesis, I use the medium of documentary filmmaking to examine efforts to develop fair and affordable housing in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Hastings is an affluent, predominantly white suburban town located in Westchester County; increasingly high housing prices and exclusionary land use …
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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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The Little Giant in the South - the Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama
… an educational video that utilizes elements of documentary filmmaking entitled The Little Giant in the South - The Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama. Taken together, the educational video script and the critical commentary represent an original contribution to recording the …
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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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Confronting the challenge of distribution : women documentary filmmakers in India
Since 1980, Indian women have moved into documentary filmmaking in increasing numbers using film as a tool for raising consciousness and social change. Their work reflects an extensive variety of styles and genres, a comprehensive range of subjects, a broad spectrum of ideological …
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