Why the filmmakers represented ideas and issues

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Case Study: For the final project, elaborate a paper that analyzes and reviews a documentary film on a topic of your choice, using research that you will conduct on that topic to illuminate your review of the film. Address the following questions: does the film's style, voice, and approach support and echo its subject? How and why? If not, then how not? The paper will be posted to a discussion, and you may use images, hyperlinks, and clips.

Choose your topic and your film wisely. The film should be a documentary that fits the definitions and descriptions by Nichols and McLane, and it must be available as streaming media (it can be a paid platform, but if you have any doubts, please check with me). The topic should be one that you are genuinely interested in exploring, and it can be a topic that the film addresses directly, or it can be a topic related to the theory and history of the documentary. For example, if you were to choose Glass (hypothetically, because you need to find a film that I haven't assigned), you could then research a topic covered in the film (different methods of manufacturing glass), or you could research poetic approaches to documentary. The topic must either be central to the film's subject matter or it must be clearly related to a topic in documentary theory and history.

Examine the documentary in light of what you have learned about that subject. Additional questions to consider, when reviewing the film, include the following:

Question: Do you now understand why the filmmakers represented ideas and issues in a particular way? If it is an expository/participatory/reflexive documentary, does your research provide insight as to why the filmmaker took that approach? In other words, what more do you see in the documentary, after researching this subject?

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