Documentary film

!Woman Art Revolution is a 2012 film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson that explores the secret history of the woman’s art movement that was born from the 1960’s and the second wave of feminism which was sweeping a nation grappling with civil rights and equality. Hersman Leeson guides the viewer through their discovery of the woman’s arts movement with the use of interviews she had taken over many years with close personal friends, and comparing them with recent interviews she had taken of the…

Mechanics: West of Loathing is a unique mix between a point and click adventure and a turn based action rpg. Though you do have the ability to walk around the game using W,A,S,D I would use point and click to walk around find objects. The developers have a bag type system that is pretty good. Every item can be shown to you in a long list or you can sort every item down to make it more manageable. It seems as though whenever you want to leave a scene you walk off screen to the left. This is neat…

The documentary sets the scene by using a narrator and an actress which portrays some of Amys good and tough times. An example of this is when showing Amy in the recording studio they use another actress so the audience feel like she is acting in it. This makes the viewers connect with the documentary as it feels as if Amy was actually in the biography. The sense of frustration throughout this whole biography is evident by the way her closed ones talk about her and the struggles she has faced.…

pirate is changes when viewing ‘Pirates, Galleons, and Treasure: Globe Trekker’, a documentary film in which the real pirates that lived are discussed. This film is a good, accurate, representation of why piracy happened along with who the pirates were and what they did. There is a range of different pirates that were mentioned, so they and what they did, along with the reason for piracy and how effectively this documentary relayed this information to the viewer will be discussed in this paper. …

of an American Hero? Snowden and Citizenfour are films that attempt to retell the story of Edward Joseph Snowden. A man who was fed up with over extension of power in the government and wanted to show the citizens of America just what their government was capable of and how their privacy was almost non-existent. He downloaded thousands of files from the NSA. The films try their best to show the story as accurately as possible. However, can a film truly depict the story in its entirety and with…

Case is a documentary film about Coke and labor rights in the bottling plants. Similarly, in Mardi Gras: Made in China it is also a sort of documentary about bead factories in China. In both of these films we view some of the most brutal working conditions a human can possibly go through. This paper will review Carmen Garcia’s film (The Coca-Cola Case) and David Redmon’s film (Mardi Gras: Made in China) as well as main arguments in both movies, and will evaluate the quality of the films and…

Grizzly Men and The Grizzly Man An analysis of two Werner Herzog documentaries By Leon Kavanagh 16/11/14 Year 3 Film & Television Production Word count: Herzog’s immense gift for coaxing such human performances from his subjects is undeniably present in his documentary features. There is no tabloid longevity, but true beatification of the human spirit to triumph and over come the minutest of odds. Growing up in a worn torn Munich, Herzog moved to the remote Bavarian village of…

Globalgirl Media Chicago, and he said “the discrimination against people who identify as transgender is horrific. With all kinds of terrible and difficult outcomes and ending that discrimination is important.” In the documentary Mala Mala the same issue was addressed by one of the women in the film, Ivana Fred, who said, “The transsexual community is the community that gets stepped on the most. Independently of a person’s position, their rights cannot be violated. This applies to any citizen…

of Everything is a biographical picture adapted from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen written by Jane Hawking. From a framing perspective, this film is pretty ideal when compared to the other representations in this study and in films with disabled characters in general. According to Darke, most disability films construct the disabled characters as abject where the impaired are easily fatigued, totally dependent, socially isolated, asexual, and infantilized, and have an…

to identify the similarities that can be drawn between the films of Iranian New Wave and those examined previously in the module, focusing primarily on the cinematic influences of Italian neorealism thereafter, Nouvelle Vague and the British New Wave that helped to inspire a generation of new directors to develop and thus transform contemporary Iranian cinema. Before the rise of the “New Wave” genre, Iranian…