The Documentary

Before explaining the setting of the interview for the ethnography, I must first introduce my friend Roger, who will be my main participant in this process. Roger and I first met at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg during my first semester and we soon became friends, due to the fact that the both of us loved critiquing movies. Although his major is in Anthropology, he stated that the Big Bang Theory was one of his favorite sitcoms. Despite the series based on the physics and associated…

Oliver Stone is a renowned filmmaker and considered one of America’s best. Like most other filmmakers, Stone attempted to capture the turbulent times of the sixties and seventies. However, unlike most filmmakers, who consistently avoiding controversial issues, Stone was determined to shine light on such issues and provide his audience with what he believes are truths. Stone openly admitted that he sometimes manipulate historical facts and footage to create an imaginative and influential film.…

Mehek Khaira Professor Krazter Film 106B 5 February 2016 Filmed in Time Throughout life, many are told to live in the moment; capturing the essence of time while embracing the current age of life. For filmmakers, recreating life through the eyes of a lens can not only give an opportunity to create, but also express the emotions that once had meaning. The film, The Blue Angel, directed by Josef van Sternberg, in 1930, and The 39 steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in 1935, are two completely…

really enjoyed watching this documentary in class. A few years ago I watched a documentary Oprah produced called Serving Life. The story followed prisoners inside Louisiana’s maximum-security prison Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. In the prison they have a hospice program where inmates get to take care of other dying inmates. The movie is moving and shows the personalities and human side of the men serving their time. Much like the documentary I just mentioned, I was…

adrenaline that you feel you don’t question whether or not these wild animals should be contained like they are. Blackfish, a documentary released on July 19, 2013 by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and filmed by Manuel Oteyza, answered some of the top questions about the orca’s that are behind closed tanks at SeaWorld. The documentary follows the life of a…

violence, or incapacitation” (2015). While these statistics are very concerning, the handling of these cases across college campuses is even more alarming. The documentary entitled The Hunting Ground follows two victims of sexual assault and their journey to affect change on the way universities across America handle these cases. The documentary, gives a very real insight into the lives of those who have been affected by acts of sexual assault. A close analysis of The Hunting…

According to the documentary, a former sourcing manager from Joe Fresh said that there were many worse things that people in some third countries can be doing, and sewing clothing is not danger at all. She also said that sewing clothing in the United States and Europe is not as dangerous as coal mining. Moreover, the professionals also mentioned that sweatshop is the growth of economy. The producers absolutely disagree with the professionals’ arguments. In the documentary, Morgan exposed the…

In the documentary “Food Inc.” it shows what happens in the shadows of the food industry and their harmful effect on the human body and the environment that had been unnoticed by the majority of the American people. This documentary purpose was meant to spark knowledge in the minds of the American people as to what they are poisoning their bodies with and that they have a decision to change this unhuman issue. While watching the documentary I detect a bias viewpoint. Although the video is…

I have seen this documentary many times, but the feelings that I got watching it this time were much different. I remember seeing this documentary for the first time as a freshman in high school, often shielded from everything going on in the world. As I watched this time, I watched with a broken heart and a devastated view of the country that we live in. I watched with hope to believe that our country had indeed improved in certain ways; but I was left feeling that same void and…

The Blackfish documentary was made by Gabriela Cowperthwaite in 2013. In order to show that Blackfish is propaganda against SeaWorld, their claims about Tilikum and the accidents surrounding him as well as how he was introduced to SeaWorld, its claims about how SeaWorld functioned based on information from ex-employees some of whom haven’t worked there for over twenty years, incidents such as deaths and injuries occurring on and off of SeaWorld property, the claims and sequences where science…