| Week |
Discussion |
Assigned
Work |
| 1 |
Art
and Facts: representational form and literal copy |
- Nova:
Miracle of Life
-
The Führer Gives A City To The Jews
|
| 2 |
The
documentary idea |
(Barnouw
297-349) |
| 3 |
Documentary
origins |
(Barnouw
1-30)
- Karl
Bodmer in The West of the Imagination
- Lewis
Hine in America and Lewis Hine
|
| 4 |
Documentary
art in the silent film era |
(Barnouw
31-81)
- Herbert
Ponting: Ninety Degrees South (The Great White Silence)
- Edward
Curtis: In the Land of the Head Hunters
- Robert
Flaherty: Nanook of the North
|
| 5 |
The
advent of sound and documentaries of the thirties - 1 |
(Barnouw
85-182)
- John
Grierson: Drifters; Night Mail
- Pare
Lorentz: The Plow That Broke the Plains
- Louis
de Rochemont: March of Time
- John
Huston: San Pietro
- Leni
Riefenstahl: Olympia
|
| 6 |
The
advent of sound and documentaries of the thirties - 2 |
| 7 |
Television
and a new documentary consciousness |
(Barnouw 185-228)
|
| 8 |
How
to make a documentary - 1 Proposals, approaches, research |
- Defending
Our Lives
- The
Framingham Eight
- Streetwise
- Seventeen
|
| 9 |
How
to make a documentary - 2 Treatments, use of talent, dynamic ideas |
- Ed
Murrow: Harvest of Shame
- Bill
Moyers: The Vanishing Family
- Michael
Wood: In Search of the Trojan War
- Terry
Jones: Crusades: Pilgrims in Arms
- Errol
Morris: The Thin Blue Line
|
| 10 |
How
to make a documentary - 3 Aesthetic choices, re-enactments |
- City
of Gold
- Gold
Fever
- Finest
Hour
- Time-Life:
Lost Civilizations
|
| 11 |
The
documentary as eye-witness and participant Cinéma-vérité
and media event |
(Barnouw
231-262)
- Kennedy
v Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
- Unzipped
view
out of class :
- Davis:
Family Business, Seventeen
- Drew:
Primary
- Madonna:
Truth or Dare
- Maysles:
Salesman, Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens
- Pennebaker:
Don't Look Back, Moon Over Broadway
- Wiseman:
High School
|
| 12 |
Ethical
dilemmas and the interests of the story |
(Barnouw
262-293)
- Prime
Time Live
- 60
Minutes
|
| 13 |
Content
and form in three documentary makers: Marcel Ophüls, Jon
Alpert, Nick Broomfield |
- Hotel
Terminus
- One
Year in a Life of Crime I & II
- The
Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
- Aileen
Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
- Heidi
Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
- Kurt
& Courtney
|
| 14 |
Issues
and trends |
|
| 15 |
Last
class: review of the documentary form |
|
