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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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 the narrator
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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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“THE GAS MAN COMETH” The documentary‚ “Gas Land”‚ by Josh Fox‚ is a film about the problems with contaminated groundwater due to excessive and unregulated natural gas extraction across the country. In the film‚ Fox travels all over to talk to many people who have rented out their land to natural gas companies‚ only to get contaminated water and no help from any company or organization with the problems that ensue. Fox uses many techniques in his film to get across his point that America should
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interact with one another as human beings‚ and will only extend as far as how much value and regard we place in caring for and upholding our natural environment. I applaud the documentary for getting more people to pay attention to a worldly cause‚ and certainly there is credence to many of the facets of this documentary but after looking more into the actual conflicts that took place much of Virunga is very misleading . There is always much more to the (Hollywood idealized) story‚ and as proactive
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preceding‚ during‚ and after World War Two‚ documentaries and real-life depictions about the war‚ veterans‚ patriotism‚ post-war trauma...etc.‚ exploded on the home front. John Huston’s "Let There Be Light" and Frank Capra’s "Prelude To War" are both documentary films about World War Two‚ however filmed for very divergent purposes and in very different angles. This paper will attempt to explore and compare the differences of both wartime documentaries‚ and evaluate the effectiveness of their balance
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The film had high ratings all around‚ but there were many different reactions to what Michael had created‚ which caused quite a bit of controversy. Regardless of what critics had to say‚ the film was voted Best Documentary by the NAtional Board of Review‚ the New York Film Critics Circle‚ the Los Angeles Film Critics Association‚ and the National Society of Film Critics. It was even declared as Best Film at the Toronto and Chicago film festivals. With such good reviews
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one hour long‚ but is one of the most powerful films that I have ever watched. It’s a part of a series that Burns has done entitled “America.” Because our society today is struggling with how to respond to refugees and how to uphold the values that the Statue represents‚ the film really resonated with me. I chose the film to study the way that Burns uses archival imagery and narration‚ but the film is so much more than just those things. The film traces the history of the statue from its conception
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an individual. This concept is evident throughout the various literary techniques employed within Simon Nasht’s ‘Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History’‚ a biographical documentary which aims to convey the controversial discoveries made by an afflicted photographer. ‘Time’‚ a short film directed by Liam Connor similarly utilises film techniques to represent the effect of discovery upon the lives of the characters. The four components of discoveries; catalysts‚ discoveries‚ responses
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comes down to a film or television series that is known as a popular hit‚ most people may consider something along the lines of a comedy or drama. 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
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