As a member of the parody genre‚ Documentary Now!‚ its episode “Gentle and Soft” in particular‚ inherently employs a more overt intertextuality than what is most commonly at play in televisual texts‚ because the foundation of this genre is in the humor created by references to other texts‚ genres‚ events‚ or people. This blatant intertextuality also exists in the program because of the integration other program’s creators in the television industry and the program’s adjacent industries‚ primarily
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This astonished not only the media‚ but Seaworld’s very own staff. Why these attacks had been kept quiet from not only the public but employees as well became a real mystery. This became the introduction to the documentary‚ Blackfish. Blackfish was produced in 2013 by film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite‚ a producer who questioned the real reasons behind Dawn Brancheau’s death. Through her determination to solve these unknown and at the time‚ unexplainable tragedies
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The documentary “Kickin it” was about the homeless world cup. Which is about The homeless world cup. The year this was filmed‚ the cup was held in south africa. We followed the teams and learned the back stories of the players on different teams. How they had come to be in the position they were in‚ how football was able to save them and then how they were after the games and the progress they had made. Every team in the ternimat was made up of players who were homeless. This was there escape. This
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WHY DOCUMENTARIES ARE SO IMPORTANT Documentaries are important in many ways. One of the main reasons is that they educate you A week ago‚ I watched the documentary "Super Size Me" and I thought that it showed very well how dangerous it is to eat fast-food on regular basis. It affects your body and I don’t think many people know that. How could they know it if they aren’t going to read studies on how dangerous it is. Not many people have the time‚ or want to make time‚ to read a study. It is
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The documentary “Mission Blue” was released in 2014. Erik H. Gordon‚ Fisher Stevens‚ Robert Nixon‚ Jack Youngelson‚ Mark Monroe‚ and Peter R. Livingston Jr. are the men responsible for producing such a magnificent piece of work. Executive producers include Lisa Nishimura‚ Adam Del Deo‚ Julie Nives‚ Andrew S. Karsch‚ Shannon O’Leary Joy‚ and Shari Sant Plummer. Two of the producers‚ Fisher Stevens and Robert Nixon also directed “Mission Blue”. Peter R. Livinston Jr. also had another job in the making
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the film Catfish‚ the audience questions if the composers are controlling the truth about the media or showing what really happened. It is questionable that the directors would be able to record scenes that were significant enough to use in the documentary. Lastly‚ the responders are considered if the composers include and exclude different scenes in the media. The film Catfish changes the way responders think about media and makes them question whether the composers control the audience’s view of
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Verjine Tarkhanian English 101 Prof. Hamalian November 12‚ 2014 Essay: Blackfish The documentary film Blackfish which we saw in our class‚ was very interesting and scary. The documentary was based on a true story of a killer whale killing its trainer of many years. Till this day no know will ever know what clicked in that mammals head to turn against its trainer the way that it did. When looking at the film‚ it shows mostly the dangerous side of the mammal and how it was captured at such a
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Michael Moore’s ‘Bowling for Columbine’‚ the film which won an Oscar for best documentary‚ is not in fact a documentary‚ but rather more of a persuasive essay in film format. The widely accepted definition of ‘documentary’ is a film emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings‚ insertion of fictional matter‚ and minimal editting‚ and ‘Bowling for Columbine’ does not show any of these characteristics. Instead of presenting a neutral view of the issues‚ it is
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up 13.9 percent of the U.S. population”. Immigrants come from all over the world they come to get away from poverty‚ horrible living condition‚ civil wars‚ economic‚ political‚ and social issues. As a class‚ we watched documentaries and interviewed an immigrant. The documentaries we watched we Salam neighbor‚ God Grew Tired of Us and Living on One Dollar. My group’s interviewee name was Mrs. Fricke she migrated from Colombia‚ South America. Imperialism may also lead to migration because other countries
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Methamphetamine was originally synthesized in 1887 by a German scientist and later in 1930’s it was discovered that it could increase a person’s blood pressure and was helpful in lung congestion. It has been used to treat Parkinson’s disease‚ and obesity‚ however when used illegally this drug may cause a person to be violent and paranoid. Meth is a very powerful stimulant and very often the desire for it exceeds other interests including the need for sleep‚ food‚ and family. Meth has become one
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