Documentary Storytelling
FILM 384
Spring 2020
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This course explores the range of approaches, methods and techniques a diverse set of documentary filmmakers use to tell their stories. After an introduction to elements of creative nonfiction storytelling, we will spend the semester looking at films organized by a topical lens. Through close reading of documentary texts, filmmaker statements and academic writing, we will examine how past and current documentarians successfully--and sometimes unsuccessfully--have tackled a wide variety of subject areas, including poverty, gender, ethnography, conflict/war, class, nature and science, sexuality, current affairs, ethnicities, arts and culture, and history. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FILM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: FILM307 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (FILM-MN)(FILM) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Required text
Sheila Curran Bernard, DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING: CREATIVE NONFICTION ON SCREEN, Fourth Edition
Additional Essays, Articles, Book Chapters
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reading responses
Two 68 papers
Final presentation |
| Instructor(s): Strain,Tracy Heather Times: ..T.R.. 08:50AM-11:50AM; Location: CFS190; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 9 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 0 |
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