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    Modern Racist Paradigm‚ page 1 A documentary “Refers to a film or video that explores a subject in a way the public expects to be factual and accurate. Documentaries may be balanced by including various view points‚ or they may be subjective‚ offering the viewpoint and impressions of one producer.” (PBS‚ 2007) When watching a documentary‚ we look at non-fiction sources and opinions. In this day and time‚ we have documentary’s that educate the young and give a considerable amount of information

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    No one‚ in my opinion‚ gives much thought into viewing a film such as a documentary. A person may say or hear the word ‘documentary’ and particular stereotypical views such as elderly-people-sitting-around-on-a-Sunday-afternoon-with-nothing- better-to-do‚ or the history channel perhaps come to mind. Not many individuals give documentaries a chance‚ but I would encourage the viewing of the Academy award-winning documentary‚ Murder on a Sunday Morning‚ also known as Un Coupable Ideal‚ directed by

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    HIV (Si Heidi‚ Si Ivy at Si V) Documentary film maker Gil Bustamante (Jake Cuenca) is commissioned by the Department of Health to create a documentary for their HIV / AIDS awareness program. By means of the San Lazaro Hospital as a backdrop‚ he weaves a story that combines the numerous stories of people who are infected with the virus. Among those having their story told are heterosexuals‚ homosexuals‚ prostitutes‚ and intravenous users of drugs. His documentary focuses on three major characters:

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    Cinema of Attraction

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    through dance‚ song or offscreen supplements‚ such as sound effects and spoken commentary. Rather than a straightforward entertainment purpose‚ a film may seek to attract its viewer by offering them something unique. Gunning explains that many early documentary films sought to transport the viewer through space and time‚ rather than to simply tell a story (p.230). An example of this would be for instance taking the audience on a journey that could only be experienced through the film screen such as witnessing

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    Name: Professor Name: Class: Phil 186 Date: November 4‚ 2014 Essay 2: Capitalism A Love Story In the documentary film “Capitalism a love story” Michael Moore demonstrates the failure of Capitalism as an economic system in America. The movie explores what capitalism is‚ who benefits and who get hurt by it. The film clearly shows how capitalism was hijacked by special interests and how it decimated the middle class‚ making it so much smaller while at the same time enlarging the poor underclass. It

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    Cove is an Academy Award-winning documentary about the horrifying and merciless slaughter of dolphins in Japan. I watched the film in absolute horror... Sometimes with my hand covering my eyes‚ and saw something horrible‚ something bloodier and more brutal than any fictional horror movie could ever do to my mind. I’d seen the previews of the bright red water in the cove where dolphins were killed. I just never realized that what I would learn in the documentary and all its extra clips would be

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    Tierra Sin Pan Surrealism

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    Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan directed by Luis Buñuel is an ethnographic surrealism documentary first shown in 1933. The film was not made to spew facts at its audience members but to make the audience think about what they were seeing and hearing. Buñuel’s film is a documentary but in a broad sense of what a documentary is. It is no wonder that his move is different to any other movie out there because he was forced to learn how to film himself because cameras were just starting to be used. Even though

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    Vertov believed the camera (Cine/Kino Eye) captures more than the eye is capable of. It can draw attention to the real world by virtue of how images are ‘organised’ The film demonstrates ‘cinema is not about capturing truth but creating a mediated reality that is not least made in the generative process of editing and viewing.’ PARAGRAPH 2 Sequence 2 from Man with A Movie Camera How the sequence is organized - -juxtapositions - editing techniques - fast motion The organization

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    Week 2‚ J. Wellhausen‚ Prolegomena to the History of Israel Julius Wellhausen discovered that a source of legislation is detectable in the Pentateuch among previous discoveries of JE and D sources. He argued that this source of legislation is called‚ the Priestly Code. The letter P is given to this view. In the chapter one‚ Wellhausen showed how he came to the conclusion that P source is in fact the youngest source among the sources of JE and D. He concluded that the arrangement of the sources

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    A Reaction to the Documentary Film Entitled “ An Inconvenient Truth “ by Al Gore Introduction How many among us have proclaimed at least once‚ in a rather self-righteous manner‚ that we are someone who is environment-friendly or someone who is eco-conscious? Almost all of us have been guilty of making such a grand statement without fully knowing what it really means. After all‚ being earth-friendly is very much in fashion nowadays. No one will last an hour inside a mall without seeing fashionable

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