INI 325Y:
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Course Description - 2006-2007
| Screenings |
Mondays 4:00-6:00
pm, Innis College Rm 222 |
| Lectures |
Tuesdays 4:00-6:00
pm, Innis College Rm 312 |
| Office Hours |
Wednesdays 4:00-6:00
pm, Room 224, Innis College |
This course is suitable for
Cinema Studies students, as well as for students with a background in Sociology,
History, Politics and Twentieth Century Studies. It may also be of interest
to general arts students.
INI 325Y counts towards
Specialist, Major or Minor programmes in Cinema Studies.
Course Description
The course will chart in
broad outline the history of the development of documentary (non-fiction film)
from the Lumiere brothers to the present day. Classic documentary, direct cinema,
cinema verite, concerned cinema, women's cinema and diasporic hybridity will
be discussed, in addition to the films of influential individual filmmakers
such as Dziga Vertov, Robert Flaherty, John Grierson, Alanis Obomsawin and Trinh,
T. Minh-Ha.
Films will be screened
every week. Attendance at screenings, keeping up with assigned readings, and
participating in class discussions are essential.
Purpose of the Course
Introduction to the history
and theory of documentary film.
Texts to Buy
Course Reader - available
at Quality Control Copy, 333 Bloor St. W., 416-971-9188.
Barry Keith Grant &
Jeannette Sloniowski, eds. Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings
of Documentary Film and Video (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
1998).
Assignments and Evaluation
Bibliography Assignment
(1st term) 25%; Xmas Test 15%; Term Paper (2nd term) 30%; Term Test (2nd term)
15%; Participation 15%.
There will be no final
examination.
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