The Documentary

The invention of photography has direct correlations to the notions of documentary. Historically, a photograph represented the means to preserve a snapshot of the world as accurately as possible. This suggests something in opposition to art, the photographer is not portraying his or her vision of the world, in so far as expressionist painters of the time would be. Instead, they are merely capturing and collating information, as a historian would. Slowly it can be seen that these notions began to…

Alzheimer’s patients in any stage of the disease can benefit from music stimulation from any form to help pull them out of the darkness of dementia and help them be more aware, essentially bring them back to life again. The sad pitfall that the documentary “Alive Again” did bring up is that this therapy is not readily available to most nursing homes and is not a commonly used approach due to technology constraints and costs for most facilities that is not reimbursed by most medical plans.…

Restrepo is a documentary that follows the journey of soldiers who were deployed to what was described as the most dangerous part of Afghanistan; it was named after “Doc” Restrepo who was unfortunately killed while being deployed. Watching this film put into perspective a lot of the documents we have previously read. For example when Dan Kearney stated that the equipment that was supposed to protect them has numerous bullet holes. Having an image of the location and what the soldiers went…

Blowout are sometimes beneficial experience People try push limits Care based on developmental age, not chronological age Trust can take years Safe enough, trust enough Be predictable The documentaries goal was to offer parenting tools to guardians of children with attachment disorders. This documentary that lasted about an hour, and consisted of a lot of information to help people who are foster parents, adoptive parents, and people who are talking care of relatives while their family cannot…

Jwalant Bhagat Gasland is documentary, which talks about a problem that is currently sweeping the country and promising landowners a quick payoff. Gasland’s Josh Fox discovers hydraulic fracturing, a drilling process. The Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act of 2005 is an exemption that hydraulic fracturing has from the United States’ most basic environmental regulations. Some regulations include the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Josh Fox discovered over a twenty-four investigation…

Taiwanese film critic Huang Jianye concludes, documentary in Taiwan has been developed into an ascendant genre after the success of the inaugural “International Documentary Biennial Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been opened up in the local documentary filmmaking. It is no wonder, then, that the…

The evolutional emergence of ethnographic film is believed to have begun with the foundation of documentary film. In 1922, filmmaker Robert Flaherty released the first documentary, Nanook of the North. This narrative documentary film essentially led to generic conventions that documentaries then developed over decades (Fisher 13 September), despite its portrayal of its subjects as spectacle. Soon, film had also found its way into the anthropological world. Anthropologist Margaret Mead and her…

SUMMARY: This documentary was essentially about Latin Americans, from Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico that migrated to the United States. This documentary went in depth on the history between America and all these countries individually. Each country had a complex history where they migrated to the United States because of many dangerous environments within their country that was caused directly or indirectly by the United States. Many Latin Americans went through hell in…

“The Corporation” documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan shows that businesses are dishonest to the people to continue earning more revenue while the people are getting sick. The film also shows how corporations cause health problems and environmental issues by using unethical methods to obtain additional profit. This documentary examines the history of the corporation and the role they play in society. The main point throughout the documentary is that competition is important…

The Economics of Happiness is a documentary film that was released in 2011. It is directed by Helena Norberg Hodge, Steven Gorelick, and John Page, and produced by Local Futures. The film features different voices from around the globe and they share their story. The Economics of Happiness basically focuses on the adverse effects of globalization on populations around the world. The film starts by telling the story of a small village in the Himalayan region of India called Ladakh. It describes…