2024 Fall

FILM 125 001 - LEC 001

Documentary Forms

Caleb Christopher Murray-Bozeman

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024

Tu, Th

03:30 pm - 04:59 pm

Dwinelle 142

Class #:33638

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Film and Media

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 45

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 45

Waitlist Max: 10

Open Reserved Seats:

1 reserved for New Undergraduate Transfer Students

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 6 hours of outside work hours per week, 0 to 3 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week, and 0 to 1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Other classes by Caleb Christopher Murray-Bozeman

FILM 125 111 111LAB

Course Catalog Description

This course will focus on topics in documentary cinema, television, video, photography, and/or new media.

Class Description

This course surveys the history, theory and practice of the documentary, aka “non-fiction” film and video. We will explore this term and examine the ways its forms and ethics have changed since the beginning of cinema. We begin by asking what a document is and what the “documentary voice” of a given film is. In answering this question, we will examine some of the major modes of documentary filmmaking including cinema verité, direct cinema, and ethnographic film, and question the relationship between fact and fiction. Through formal analysis, we will examine the "reality effects" that documentaries construct, focusing on their narrative structures and how they make meaning. In addition, we will explore some of the theoretical questions that surround documentary: how do these films shape notions of truth, reality and point of view? What are the ethics and politics of representation, and who speaks for whom in a documentary?

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for FILM 125 after completing FILM 28A, or FILM 129. A deficient grade in FILM 125 may be removed by taking FILM 28A, or FILM 129.