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Documentary Media: Forms, Histories, Futures

  • MMCS260
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This unit examines the historical development of documentary and its current relationship to rapidly proliferating digital technologies across a range of formats ? including radio, television, cinema and online. From its first gestures in the early twentieth century in radio and film to current multimedia experiments online, the documentary has proved to be a resilient and compelling form. The unit considers the implication of documentary's aesthetic and rhetorical strategies in fashioning our relationship to the real and its corresponding status as a way of knowing and of experiencing the world. It exposes students to this large body of work and the critical writing surrounding it. A... -- Course Website

Instructor: Dr Maree Delofski, Dr Virginia Madsen

Prerequisites: 15cp 



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