Documentary Film and the Power of Interrogation: "American Dream" &"Roger and Me" Author(s): Miles Orvell Reviewed work(s): Source: Film Quarterly‚ Vol. 48‚ No. 2 (Winter‚ 1994-1995)‚ pp. 10-18 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213092 . Accessed: 09/12/2012 08:12 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Documentaries are positioned by the director to persuade the audience to believe what the documentary is about. There are several themes and techniques used throughout documentaries that help persuade the audience. By comparing two documentaries we can see the different techniques used to position the audience to think what the director thinks. The documentary Penicillin: the magic bullet is about the creation of the drug we used today called Penicillin. The scandals and drama surrounding the
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Di Tella has acknowledged that Prohibido marks a shift in his documentary style. In his first two feature-length films‚ his strategy was to include a multitude of accounts from witnesses to recent history. These witnesses also served as protagonists. As Clara Krieger notes‚ Di Tella “has always been fascinated by those telling the story‚” yet he is always careful to maintain a certain level of objectivity: “he neither judges nor praises his characters.” Referring specifically to the narrative
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protest is popular in media and public. Banksy’s first film was showed in the Sundance Film Festival 2010 for the first time. The film was released in the England in March 2010 And in January 2011 was nominated for the Academy Award for the Best Documentary film. The film is composed of two parts. One part is an interview with Banksy and the other part is the films that Thierry Guetta has recorded with his camera. Terry is a Frenchman who lived in Los Angeles and has spent his life with fashion’s
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Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU‚ Linux‚ open source‚ and the free software movement. Directed by J. T. S. Moore‚ the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman‚ Michael Tiemann‚Linus Torvalds‚ Larry Augustin‚ Eric S. Raymond‚ Bruce Perens‚ Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf. The film begins with glimpses of Raymond‚ a Linux IPO‚ Torvalds‚ the idea of Open Source‚ Perens‚ Stallman‚ then sets the
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The Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film that was created in black and white by Russian director Dziga Vertov. This is a film without scenario and actors but Vertov used different music to bring out slow and fast rhythm. He used the camera to capture real happen and he wanted to show everyday life to the audiences. Vertov used many cinematic techniques to make his film more vivid such as double exposure‚ fast and slow motions‚ freeze frames‚ split screens‚ different
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Nanook of the North review: Composition and Historical value Being one of the first feature length documentaries‚ it is obvious that Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North’s (1922) emergence served as a great model for all documentaries to come. The way it was structured from beginning to end was all part of the fantastic feel that Flaherty had in store for the world. His obsession with the primitive state and man’s fight for survival against nature’s resilient obstacles is precisely well represented
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considered to be the origin of documentary film‚ capturing life as it is. Usually the photos were taken of people and places documenting it. What is unique about Robert Flaherty’s footage of Nanook inside his igloo? What Robert Flaherty did that was unique was he set up ice stacked to look like they were in an igloo‚ but in reality they were not. This gave him enough light to get the footage for the scene. A documentary documents an event but what else does it convey? A documentary documents an event but
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Questions for Review Chapter 3 1.) What levels of meaning can be found in Genesis 1.1-2.4a? From Genesis 1.1-2.4a it can be discerned that God is the creator of all. He created the world and its inhabitants from a vast nothingness. The text reflects upon who God is and what His capabilities are through the act of creation. The verses allow that God is communicating with us. It is communicated what Gods will is for man and gives us a history of our beginnings. From the data provided in the
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"Extreme Ice" In this documentary film‚ “Extreme Ice‚” produced by PBS TV‚ 2009‚ James and scientists shows how glacier ice is melting. James Balog‚ a photographer‚ wanted to document and help scientists to understand mountain monumental changes. So he surveyed the ice and went to the places such as Alaska‚ Green land‚ etc. The project team which called “Extreme ice” discovered that there were very serious problems. The sun was the most reason of ice melting. But now‚ such as Industrial
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