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Jun 16, 2024
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MDIA 2135 - Documentary Genres
Investigates the construction of nonfiction film and televisual documentary imagery, from the inception of motion pictures (ca 1895) through the current postmodern American landscape. In the course, a representative sampling of the documentary film canon by historical figures is screened, which will assist in gaining understanding of the contemporary context within which these documentary constructions were assembled. Because this course is taught within the School of Telecommunications, the second part of the course necessarily moves toward examining the influences American network television, cable, and video technology have had on the form.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - 1. Develop the ability to critically examine and analyze documentary images, and their historic depiction of various aspects of American life, culture, and history.
- 2. Develop skills with which to deconstruct documentary approaches from cultural, political, and broadcast organizational perspectives.
- 3. Develop the ability to critique aspects of our culture through the works of documentary film/television producers.
- 4. Gain an understanding of how of how our media industry has influenced and been influenced by non-narrative film and video.
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