Documentary film techniques

Torture Warrants Essay Response to the Reading I will begin by stating that when it comes to torture, I am fully against it if there is not an extremely good reason for it. No type of torture (psychological, physical, emotional, and sexual) should be done willy-nilly. I also condemn the involvement of innocents (such as unknowing family members or friends). If, however, the situation did call for extreme levels of torture, I would do it with no qualms whatsoever. Concerning the readings, I agree…

Abu Ghraib Torture and Prison Abuse and The Bataan Death March are two comparative events in US history. The Abu Ghraib Torture and Prison Abuse was a series of human rights violations against prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, which began in March of 2003. The Bataan Death March was the relocation by foot of American Prisoners from the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O, Donnel a prisoner camp of the Japanese during World War 2. While both Abu Ghraib and The Bataan Death March are a result of…

“Majid Khan's ‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins was ‘pureed’ and rectally infused,” (Senate Intelligence Committee). This is but one of the atrocities performed upon the prisoners of the CIA at one of numerous black site prisons. In discussion of modern American foreign policy, one controversial issue has been torture. On the one hand, some people argue that torture is a necessary practice that proactively saves American lives. On the other hand, other…

Law enforcement interrogations are inquiries, in which criminal investigators systematically question potentially uncooperative individuals legally held in custody to attain dependable information that suspects may have knowledge of and potential responsibility for (Evans et al., 2010). Seasoned law enforcement interrogators (SLEIs) follow prescribed requirements in the course and conduct of the interrogation, but they also have extraordinary discretionary and flexible decision-making powers to…

The controversy on torture be justifible is still debated. Torture is prohibited internationally due to moral believes. However, according to the current incidents that can be seen easily in the news these days, it is obvious that these days torture has been practiced widely in many countries of the world. The United Nations defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or…

as a single screening of his film All Divided Selves. The two artists are contemporaries both living in Glasgow, but their similarities go beyond generation and nationality; they both present everyday reality in a way that makes us question our assumptions, while suggesting undertones of fear and anxiety and using motifs of Irish and Scottish folk culture. Despite these connections between the works of Boyce and Fowler, which could be explored further, Fowler’s film is an independent work that…

Film One: Haddon’s earlier film was designed to show to Westerners the curious lives of people around the world; but it was also one the first step towards the creation of ethnographic films today. Though Haddon documented (for only four minutes) the lives of the natives of the Torres Strait, he did it in a way of an outsider rather than immersing himself into the culture; the film was taken as if one was looking into a fish tank at the curiosities inside. In the way however, it does show the…

Despite different genres of the documentary, first-person filmmaking still stands out as one of the most unique styles. Not all filmmakers are attracted to this genre of documentary, and every filmmaker has their own special interest in a genre. The autobiographical documentary has raised a lot of issues in concern with the growth of our ideas towards the documentary. Therefore, this paper presents the real context of autobiographical filmmaking, about the film Tarnation. In relation to this, my…

When it comes to the topic of torturing terrorists for information, most of us will readily agree that it’s a debatable topic. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether useful information could be gained from torturing terrorists. Whereas some are convinced that torture could be used as a tool for obtaining information, others maintain that torture is not effective and can even result in gaining false information. I agree that torture is a necessary tool for…

it does not satisfy Kant’s first version of a categorical imperative, the Principle of Universality, which states that one should always act as if their actions will become universal law. People would not appreciate other countries using those techniques on United States’ citizens. In fact, there have been situations of a similar nature in which Americans spoke negatively on the treatment of their fellow citizens. The second problem is that the chosen course of action does not satisfy Kant’s…