This UCLA cource is designed to introduce you to documentary film. Asrequired text see Documentary by Eric Barnouw

The most important questions are:
Direct cinema (definition of,
technological innovations
important to)
Robert Drew
D.A. Pennebaker
Crisis
Monterey Pop
Cinema veritй (definition of,
distinction from direct cinema)
Jean Rouch
Chronique d’un йtй (Chronicle
of a Summer)
The Maysles Brothers (incl.
role in direct cinema)
Gimme Shelter
Leni Riefenstahl (how she came
to direct Olympia, why it
interested her)
Olympia (influence on modern
sports coverage)
Kon Ichikawa
Tokyo Olympiad (emphasis on
competition more than winning,
controversy regarding)
Television documentary (history of,
stylistic traits of)
Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed
(reasons for making of, how it
exemplifies tv documentary)
PBS
Ken Burns
“Ken Burns Effect”
Civil War
Peter Davis
Hearts and Minds (style of,
controversy regarding)
Michael Moore (history of,
including connection to American
labor history; political outlook of)
Kevin Rafferty (importance to Moore,
Bush family)
Bowling for Columbine (influence from
cinema veritй, prominence of
Moore in)
Errol Morris (history of, interests of)
Interrotron
The Fog of War (subject matter, use of
Interrotron, comparison to Hearts
and Minds)
Steve James (history of as film student,
Big Brother, documentarian)
Stevie (influence of both direct cinema
and cinema veritй)
Alexandra Pelosi
Journeys with George (use of off-the-
shelf camera, overlap of personal
and political)
Robert Greenwald
Uncovered (example of inexpensive
polemical documentary)
Jose Padilha
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