FMST 023. Documentary: The Art of the Real

Contextualizing a range of documentary practices within the history of nonfiction film and television and in the landscape of contemporary media culture, this course explores the aesthetic and rhetorical strategies of documentary form. Topics include: activist media; the essay film; critical and sensory ethnographic film; reenactment; television documentary; and witnessing.
Humanities.
Eligible for FMST
Fall 2024. White.
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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