FILM 42.13 Global Documentary and Transnational Cinema

Since the Lumière Brothers first began dispatching camera operators around the world to shoot actualité films over a century ago, documentary film and video have played a major historical role in constructing and mediating popular understandings of the global. This course considers that history, from its origins in ethnographic documentary to contemporary IMAX films and YouTube videos.  In assessing the wider implications of documentary’s relation to the global, selected transnational fiction films will also be screened and discussed. 

Instructor

M. Roberts

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT or ART

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