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- Week 1: Defining Women’s Roles in Documentary
- Week 2: Early Innovators I: Esfir Shub
- Week 3: Early Innovators II: Leni Riefenstahl
- Week 4: Early Collaborators: Osa Johnson, Leila Roosevelt, Marguerite Harrison
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- Week 12: Challenging Forms I: Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Week 13: Challenging Forms II: Barbara Hammer and Su Friedrich
- Week 14: Challenging Representations I: Identities
- Week 15: Challenging Representations II: Identities
- Week 16: Video and AIDS Activism
- Week 17: Global Issues
- Week 18: Contemporary Mainstream Documentary
- Week 19: Reality Television
- Week 20: Beyond Production: Women in Programming and other Roles
- Reality TV Syllabus
“White Water, Black Gold” trailer from David Lavallee on Vimeo.
I just read about the tarsands (or, oilsands) as part of my preparation for a class on globalization. While the sands offer another resource for oil, the oil produced requires an enormous amount of resources to extract. One of the key [...]
Somehow, I now have 4,800+ followers on Twitter and counting. WOW. I never thought this little endeavor (obsession?) would attract so much attention.
I was looking for documentaries on the World Health Organization, and I came across this one titled The Last Child, about the attempts to eradicate polio around the world. Here is the trailer:
Check out the comments on YouTube. It’s interesting to how strongly people react to the idea of [...]
Check out this compelling trailer for A Sister’s Call:
A Sister’s Call – Outreach Trailer from Kyle Tekiela on Vimeo.
Brief description from the Web site:
In 1977, Call Richmond disappeared. 20 Years later, his sister Rebecca found him homeless, alone and suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia. Filmed over [...]
This spring I am teaching a course on media and globalization, so I have been looking for some documentaries to show in the class.
So far, I have found several on the outsourcing of call centers to India and elsewhere. Here is the list if others are interested. Please feel free to add any [...]
So last fall I had the experience of teaching mass communication theory for the first time. I used a standard theory overview textbook and overall found the experience a bit… well… So this year I tried teaching mass communication theory through the subject of reality TV. With more than 25 books on the subject and more than 500 academic articles to work from, I found plenty of materials to work with.
It baffles me a bit when I get comments, tweets, and e-mails asking me this question: What should I make my documentary about?
Outcast Films‘ Sex in an Epidemic will be debut on Showtime tomorrow, December 1, and will be repeated on various Showtime outlets for the next month or so. Directed by Jean Carlomusto, Sex in an Epidemic
provides a sociocultural perspective on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its ongoing [...]
It’s not often a documentary drives me absolutely nuts, but this one sure did it.
In the press lately has been a lot of speculation and discussion about the impact of documentary. Can a documentary change the world? Considering the size and diversity on our planet, that sounds like an incredibly tall order. If a documentary can change the world (being optimistic here), how can we determine what that impact [...]
Twitter- documentarysite: @scurverecords Any word on what your next interactive video will be?
- documentarysite: RT @reellives: What Elizabeth Taylor Did For Women’s Rights - http://t.co/WD6sBrVB http://t.co/ttBMmrxe #feminism
- documentarysite: RT @TheLoneOlive @thenewwomanfilm @documentarysite did you see my interview with @jskoff who runs op-docs? http://t.co/3WJIq35W
- documentarysite: @TodayWeSaw Looks interesting! Good luck with setting a release date and such!
- documentarysite: @PetrGinzDoc That's just a link to a review. I have dreams of making my own someday, but not sure how to make that a reality!
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