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Racial And Ethnic Half Lives
1,652 wordsThe appalling conditions of New York Citys immigrants were disclosed by Jacob Riis in How the Other Half Lives. Being an immigrant from Denmark himself, Riis, felt it was his duty to present others the disturbing life that many immigrants endured, including children. Riis, a photographer, was able to portray the slums as no other person had been able to do before. He brought to light the crime, disease, and hopelessness of the tenements. His book and photographs led to legislation throughout New...
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Storytelling Lost To The Documentary
1,642 wordsIn this world there exists something that we all have in common and upon which the success of our entire civilization rests. It is the almost magical way in which we communicate and understand each other. Simply said, it is storytelling. Storytelling is a very cool, in media terms, interactive experience between a teller and a listener. In a sense, many mediums such as novels and television, while they contain stories, are not seen in the same light as 'storytelling' which permits live storytell...
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Analysis Of The Atomic Cafe Documentary 1982
1,226 wordsAnalysis of The Atomic Cafe Documentary (1982) Atomic Cafe can be thought of as the example of a new genre in the field of documentaries. Some critics refer to it as observational grotesque. It is clear that producers strived to expose the sheer futility of duck and cover tactics, when it comes to protecting people from the effects of nuclear explosion. However, Atomic Cafe would never be able to become critically acclaimed, if it was only providing viewers with the historical insight on how did...
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2,762 wordsGoing on Instinct: Gender ing Primatology in Film Melinda Kanner dwells on popular construction of primatology by the example of the films Instinct (1999) and Gorillas in the Mist (1988). The author is concerned with the question of how cultural preoccupations and tensions are revealed in [these] creations of essentially new versions of professions (Kanner n. p. ) as the practices of medicine, scholarship, and law have been drastically changed and transformed in film and television. The scientis...
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Changing Climate Thesis Documentary
300 wordsENGLISH DOCUMENTRY ASSIGNMENT Proposed topic: How the World is changing due to the effects caused by Global Warming The reason for this topic is our increasingly changing climate. Every year our climate continually is changing and becoming warmer. However its becoming more and more difficult to change our polluting ways. Though this documentary Id like to get the publics attention about our ever-changing climate. For this topic I would like to have a god like sounding narrative voice. A demandin...
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Blair Witch Serial Killer
2,251 wordsQuestioning Reality Mockumentary Mockumentary: Questioning Reality and the Tenets of Documentary Film Itself A mock documentary is successful when it is able to combine both the appearance of historically accurate elements and present believable situations through a false lens, leading the audience to question the reality of what they are seeing. The genre of false documentary aims to present a convincing story through the use of credible documentary tactics to portray a fictional documentary. E...
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World War Ii D W Griffith
2,022 wordsIn the final years of the twentieth century, rare is the documentary that attracts mass audiences or attention. At a time when people get to declare their desire for entertainment in a multitude of media, the fate of the non-fiction film that attempts to tell a true story is not a happy one. But there are documentaries that succeed at the box office and even achieve status as popular fare, mostly either by appealing to a specialized audience of sufficient size, or taking a point of view that mas...
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First World War House Of Commons
1,751 wordsUkrainian Internment During the First World War Representations of History Freedom Had a Price is a 1994 award winning documentary about the Canadian internment of? enemy aliens? (as considered by the Canadian government) during the First World War. Produced and directed by Your Luhovy, it is a moving visual account of the atrocities perpetrated on prisoners who had committed no crimes. While a small percentage were German captives, the majority were Canadians of Ukrainian descent. Hated and fea...
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Hero Odysseus Ill Fated
286 wordsThe Odyssey is an epic adventure that involves a great hero, mythical beasts, traitors and lovers and above all, a journey of discovery. In this lofty poem written by Homer, the Trojan war hero Odysseus travels back to his home island of Ithaca. During his 10 -year journey, he encounters incredible adventures, including challenging the one-eyed beast, the cyclops. This documentary relates the story and links it to todays world of heroes and far-flung journeys. Learn about a modern interpretation...
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Changing Climate Thesis Documentary
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
4,510 wordsOn " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Essay, On " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Note: This is excerpted from a longer essay on Reznikoff. DOCUMENTARY CULTURE The title of my chapter is taken from Muriel Rukeyser's " Poem out of Childhood" (1935), which describes the shift among writers of her generation from " Sappho" to " Sacco, " from the expatriate salon culture of the 1920 s to 1930 s activism inaugurated by the Sacco-Vanzett...
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