class 2

The Documentary As Such? Definitions and Limitations
(27/08/19)
Professor Greg Cohen

Leituras-Base:

NICHOLS, BILL. “Documentary Modes of Representation.” Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary. Bloomington: University of Indiana, 1991. 32-75.
LAROCCA, DAVID. Introduction. “Representative Qualities and Questions of Documentary Film.The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth. Ed. David LaRocca. Fwd. Timothy Corrigan. London: Lexington Books, 2017. 1-41.

Obras visuais:

LOCKHART, SHARON, dir. Podworka. Poland/USA, 2009. 31’
COHN, LIBBIE D. and SNIADECKI, J.P., dirs. People’s Park. China/USA, 2012. 78’
SMITH, JOHN, dir. Worst Case Scenario. Austria/UK, 2003. 18’
FLURY, ADRIAN, dir. A Place I’ve Never Been. Switzerland, 2015. 5’

Leituras suplementares

PLANTINGA, CARL. “What a Documentary Is, After All.The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63.2 (Spring 2005): 105-117.
—–. “The Limits of Appropriation: Subjectivist Accounts of the Fiction/Non-Fiction Distinction.” In The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth. Ed. David LaRocca. Fwd. Timothy Corrigan. London: Lexington Books, 2017. 113-124.
ARIAS, JUAN CARLOS. “Las nuevas fronteras del cine documental: la producción de lo real en la época de la imagen omnipresente.Aisthesis 48 (2010): 48-65.
NICHOLS, BILL. Chapters 6 and 7. Introduction to Documentary. 2nd Ed. Bloomington: University of Indiana, 2010. 142-211.

Lesson Plan & PowerPoint (Prof. Cohen)