Essays on Documentaries

The prison system that currently exists today offers a retribution measure instead of corrective actions to assert and ensure that the convicted assailants, after serving their prison time, could go back to the community as responsible individuals. While this is the case, a documentary featured in 2005 and 2009 documents a different role of prisons. Aside from housing convicted individuals, it also serves as a modern day asylum for mentally-ill individuals convicted of committing a crime against society.

I am writing this memo as my personal take on the existing problem regarding the release of convicted mentally-ill individuals to the society after serving ...

Sexually transmitted diseases pose a health challenge among the adolescents in Newark, New Jersey. Recent statistics indicate that there have occurred 3,022 cases of Chlamydia along with 1,228 cases of gonorrhea during 2012 in the region. Going by this statistics, STD`s appear to present a health challenge within the region which requires addressing as per the goals stated under healthy people 2020 (Office of Population Affairs, 2010). The scope of the health education covers a specific age group within the region. The health education focuses on teenagers and raising awareness regarding the diseases. The education needs revolve around the ...

Introduction:

When we speak of the public sphere, we think of public opinion and this is borne out by Jurgen Habermas accordingly in his various books and scholarly articles. The transmission of news is essential to development of public opinion due to the fact that this opinion is constantly shaped by what is fed by the news cycle and the media networks. Habermas points out various ways how the news cycle affects public opinion and we shall analyse these in detail below.

Literature review

Habermas remains an important figure with regard to the implementation of public policy and the effects of the ...

With the help of informative documentaries on the food industry, many are learning the extraordinary truth about how the American people are able to enjoy the over-abundance of food that has become a regular part of life. In an attempt to gain some perspective on the reality of food production I watched “Food Inc.” and “Food Machine.” Each of these films displays a behind the scene look inside the business of food production responsible for the abundance of food available to those living in the United States. The following review of the two movies is aimed to explore the different perspectives ...

Documentary film is one of the most difficult genres of cinematography, firstly, because of its structure as well as due to the large number of approaches to the implementation of the idea. This genre originated over a century ago and nowadays it is undoubtedly one of the most difficult genres, since it is necessary to analyze a huge amount of material to identify the authenticity of historical facts in order to create a professional documentary film. The advent of documentary films made the cinematography a more profound art form, which became a part of the scientific world too. Documentary film was the beginning ...

Movie review: This film is not yet rated

Movie makers make movies with the purpose of exploring people’s talents and also for entertainment purposes. To many people, movies are a source of entertainment especially after a long day of work (Manchel 435). While others may prefer to go to the cinema and watch a certain movie, others will just wait for the movie to be on Blu-ray disk. Then, they can purchase the disk and watch the movie in the comfort of their sofa back at home. In a nutshell, movies are a source of flexible entertainment, which one can enjoy, in whatever style they wish to enjoy it. In ...

What is Up? Graff’s Book

In his book “They Say I Say. Hidden Intellectualism” Graff is focused on the pedagogy issues that are related to the bringing up the new generation of people who are convinced in the priorities of living and thinking in an intellectual way. The ideas expressed by Graff are useful from many points of views, especially in the context of formation ideals in the new generation. Graff is convinced that every issue in modern life, even in the frames of our consuming world can be discussed and regarded intellectually. In his opinion, the task of education is to make youth ...

Art is a universal language. Music, as a part of art, is also a language that crosses cultural and ethnic boundaries and connects different people through expressive and receptive communication. Some psychologists distinguish a kind of language called “subconscious”: understanding of the word’s meaning without speaking the language initially. After watching A night in 67, I understood that my subconsciousness can determine words, phrases and even whole sentences. Disregarding the fact that I was not very well aware of Brazilian culture, I still was able to enjoy the music, let myself get absorbed into the atmosphere of this musical documentary and ...

Business Ethics Case: Application of Ethical Tenets

Introduction Contemporary organizations have increasingly promoted social responsibility and conformity to ethical standards. Two of the most popular global organizations are Wal-Mart and McDonald’s. According to Wal-Mart’s official website: - “Wal-Mart operates over 11,000 retail units under 71 banners in 27 countries - Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates around the world — 1.3 million in the U.S. alone” .

- Established “more than 35,000 local restaurants; - serving nearly 70 million people, - in more than 100 countries each day” . As such, these two organizations touch and influence millions of people ...

Abstract

Ranked among the top 7 heritage sites around the world by UNESCO, Stonehenge is one of the most picturesque marvels of the medieval world. Standing isolated in Wiltshire, England, the prehistoric monument has been a destination for well over 800,000 tourists from all over the world every year. With many theories surrounding its construction and purpose, architects and archeologists have put their minds together in trying to come up with a scientifically acceptable explanation of the monument’s coming into being. Today, many questions surround Stonehenge, with hundreds of documentaries giving different accounts, and crediting different people for its construction ...

Just as narrative film has evolved, so have documentaries – the changing nature of cultural tastes, historical events, and film technology has allowed documentary films to be given a unique and constantly changing sensibility throughout the years. According to Grierson, documentaries as a film format are typically considered as being “made from natural material,” meaning that the events being filmed are happening organically, without the use of scripts or actors or sets. However, even within that strict definition there are ways to stretch and alter the very fabric of what it means to be a documentary, evoking the cultural and social attributes of a ...

“Seven Islands and a Metro” and “Bombay: Our City”

The United Nations reported in 2009 that by the year 2030, 41% of the population of India will reside in urban areas. Mumbai is one of one of the 20 largest cities in the world with a population of 2.21 billion in 2011. With almost twice the growth overall of the urban population, urban area slums are growing the most quickly (Reliancefoundation.org 2014). These types of housing conditions created by rapid population growth result in numerous problems: poor health conditions and more diseases, increased crime, lessened access to civic agencies, environmental degradation, increase in slum housing, and overcrowding. It is ...

Every person needs passion in their life. It is a driving force that gives life a sense and makes it meaningful. People may have many interests and that means that their intellect is being stimulated by more than one area in life. Voltaire said that a person can change everything, except their passions. What I am passionate about is art, especially film art. In my opinion art and culture are very connected. I like to watch films an make some short films. That is a very personal process and it makes a person grow. The soul makes a selection of what we should consider ...

Executive Summary

The name of the business will be The Parrain, New Orleans’ slang for “The Godfather” and the catch phrase will be serving the best. The Parrain will be a Food Truck business offering a variety of cold and hot sandwiches, salads and particular healthy recipes. Studies demonstrate that customers are requesting for healthy food that is inexpensive, available, and from convenient locations. The Parrain Truck will cater for the needs of working class, through a food truck that is portable and can venture out to diverse parts of the New Orleans City Metropolis. The Parrain Truck will give appealing and tasty ...

Abstract

Ranked among the top 7 heritage sites around the world by UNESCO, Stonehenge is one of the most picturesque marvels of the medieval world. Standing isolated in Wiltshire, England, the prehistoric monument has been a destination for well over 800,000 tourists from all over the world every year. With many theories surrounding its construction and purpose, architects and archeologists have put their minds together in trying to come up with a scientifically acceptable explanation of the monument’s coming into being. Today, many questions surround Stonehenge, with hundreds of documentaries giving different accounts, and crediting different people for its construction ...

The verite documentary movement was a way of separating documentary film technique of new works from the previous era of sound documentaries from the 1930s and 1950s. Verite can be characterized by a greater dedication to realism in form, without the staginess and artificiality of previous schools of filmmaking. D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back, about Bob Dylan’s concert tour in the United Kingdom, is an incredible work of cinema verite, with its stark realism and matter-of-factness in presentation of these events. Perhaps one of the most perfect examples of the ‘new grammar’ of verite as a filmmaking technique comes ...

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Reflective Essay on Hidden Colors 1 and Hidden Colors 2

I believe that the above quote encapsulates the message that the presenters of the documentaries, Hidden Colors 1 and Hidden Colors 2 desire to send the African community, especially members of that community who are based in America. The presenters as well as the director of the film series, Tariq Nasheed, intend to educate African descendants of their history and origin. In addition, these experts intend to inform them of the systematic operation of racism, and how it is used to by oppressors, who are of European descent to control or even eradicate who they ...

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History stands witness, even today to the fact that that The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis to have ever hit the nations of the world. Nearly all the countries across the world bore the brunt of this economic crisis and were left to fend for themselves without the support of one another. There are varied timings of the origin of the Depression all over the world that fall in the 1930s to the 1940s. America however, was the worst victim of this recession as the ...

Essay Chapter 1

Question 3: What is "knowledge"? Why is it useful? Is it ever possible to have knowledge? Is it ever possible to know that you have knowledge? Why, or why not? The ability to familiarize, analyze, and understand something or someone is known as knowledge (Knowledge par. 1). Some of the things include information skills facts and skills. One learns most of these through education and a few from personal experience. Knowledge is essential in one’s day-to-day life. Having the general knowledge of the current matters gives one an edge in the society. People, especially in the workplace, ...

McDonaldization is a term utilized by sociologist George Ritzer within his book, The McDonaldization of Society (1993). He clarifies that it is showed when a society adopts the attributes of a fast-food restaurant. McDonaldization is a re-conceptualization of legitimization, or moving from customary to judicious modes of thought, and experimental management. Where Max Weber utilized the model of the organization to speak to the direction of this evolving public opinion, Ritzer sees the fast-food trend as having turn into a more illustrative contemporary standard. In contemporary public opinion, the idea of McDonaldization is picking up consideration in diverse perspectives, for example, culture. McDonaldization ...

The classic association of the country of The United States of America is the word “Freedom.” The United States is synonymous with “the land of the free.” It is core to the values of the US where in American democracy freedoms is considered essential to citizen’s way of life. The definition of democracy is an organization of government in which people have a say in policies, and are educated enough to make informed decisions. A “good” democracy then requires a way for them to determine what is going on in their government in country in order to make choices, which ...

HOW A PERSON CARRIES ON WITH LIFE AFTER ACCEPTING THE IRRETRIEVABLE LOSS OF THEIR DREAMS

Film Studies Life in the U.K. has changed drastically for many people during my lifetime. I have been observing people passing me on the streets and riding the Underground with me. I have used my inner camera’s eyes to try to see and understand them more clearly. I realized that I cared about people who were looking into the future knowing their lives would not bring them the satisfaction of reaching their dreams and life goals. Circumstances seem to have broken them and I wonder if lack of fulfilment and their disappointments fog their vision and decisions. ...

The Inconvenient Truth is a documentary movie from Philip Davis Guggenheim, an American film director and producer. He is well known for his professional approach and has produced and directed three documentaries in addition to score of other movies. He has the honor of being one of those filmmakers who released three different documentaries ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. This paper describes the movie in second paragraph, an evaluation of the movie in next five paragraphs and a conclusion in last paragraph. The Inconvenient Truth is about the threat of global warming and persuasively interlaces ...

The Oprah Winfrey Show commonly known as Oprah is the most successful female talk show in the history of American TV. It is an American syndicate talk that has been aired for 22 years; that is from 1886 to 2011. It was also one of the most influential and popular daytime talks shows in America (Garson 221). The show had interesting and highly influential topics that penetrated into the American pop-culture awareness. Markedly, Winfrey used this show as a platform to inspire, teach, and motivate viewers. This show included uplifting experiences that featured book clubs, self-improvement segments, compelling interviews, and ...

Literature is the art of communication that explains the diverse nature of the environment in which we live. It is the point of reference for all humans which existed at the time of any event or were born after the event and would like to feed their imaginative situation by reading what happened then. Literature can be categorized into two main groups. These groups are oral and written literature. Oral literature is the art of communication through the word of mouth, but most of it is not recorded anywhere. This literature used to happen in the ancient times where ...

The documentary Dear Pyongyang and Crossing the line were both filmed during the mid 2000s in North Korea and both were a reflection of what really transpired between two families who had their sons being citizens of the North Korea both willingly and unwillingly. This film takes us through the journey that these brothers had to endure in the foreign country showing us what really transpired in North Korea between the year 1960 to present times. The documentaries Dear Pyongyang and Crossing the line can be seen to both have an aspect of the present times in relation to ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

Hitler was smart, charismatic and evil. Those are deadly virtues for a man seeking a position for dictator. He used these skills to his advantage. He not only was smart, but he had the ability to create art. His paintings were rejected, and this ranged him. He did not like being rejected. Hitler showed all the signs of the classic narracistic traits behavior. He could pretend to care for others but in reality he did not give a care for them. The faking empathy and loving he showed inspired his loyalty Nazis to follow him to the end of the earth. ...

Introduction

Commenting on the Dish Network Hopper, MSNBC wrote, “Take your favorite movies and shows wherever you go.” As a matter of fact, this comment makes a lot of sense considering that the DVR, designed by Dish Network is undoubtedly a symbol of leading innovation. The Hopper has become more than a buzzword in today’s social circles. The organization has received overwhelming credit for the same (Biggs, 2). The innovative technology is currently a trending topic in consumer websites as well as social media. The hopper has sparked mixed reactions among consumers, with some thinking it is the greatest thing in the history of ...

Abstract

Business prospectus is essential in establishing the status of a company. The paper presents a prospectus of Philip Morris International Inc, a renowned market leader. The study will initiate by examining the quality and types of the products that the company trades in. This is with the intention of establishing the reasons for the company’s recommendable performance in the international market. Furthermore, the study will focus on the Philip Morris’s marketing strategies and its social activities. The evaluation will essentially rely on the accessible documents including company’s documentaries, reports and scholarly business journals. A mixed research design will be ...

Documentary Film

What is documentary filmmaking? In early 20th century a lot of operators started featuring nonfiction items – calling them documentaries, expedition films, interest films, after 1907 – travelogues. (Barnouw, 1993) The first documentary films in the United states and France were either short news reports, records of important meetings and events, or travelogues that didn’t have any original story-telling, script or staging. Grierson, one of the first documentary filmmakers, defines it as "creative treatment of actuality".

Documentary is one of fundamental genres of filmmaking. Filmmakers are trying to explain or show really important social problems and dilemmas that ...

Abstract

Health is a problem that concerns everyone in the population. Weather it is the ethical aspects regarding IVF treatment or medical engineering, or the fact that health care costs are on the rise and the number of doctors are decreasing. The first set of documentaries viewed concerning healthcare ethics, brought up points for and against the practices in regards to the medical community, the people involved, and the religious aspects of it all. The news documentary viewed brought up many aspects on why healthcare costs are rising, and what is going on now in our state and federal legislature as ...

What is environmentalism? Well, before giving an answer to this question, it is important to revisit a story written by Sarah Orne Jewett. In the story, A White Heron, Sarah narrates of a little girl who enjoys and treasures nature as it is. She enjoys spending time in the woodland looking for their cow, and enjoys the sound of singing birds. One day, the girl meets a hunter who promises to given some money to anyone who leads him to a white heron. At first, the offer appears too tempting, but, the little girl, Sylvia, does not give in. She decides to keep ...

Introduction:

Censorship is the hindering of communication or free speech which may be considered offensive to public morals and which may be deemed as objectionable, sensitive or harmful. The suppression of such news and media may be determined by the government as well as private organisations. Censorship occurs within a variety of scenarios but usually includes the transmission of films and others arts such as plays, and in mediums of broadcasting such as radio and television. Of late, electronic media is also up for censorship and this includes the internet. Issues for the imposition of censorship are varied and may include ...

The mention of Holocaust brings to mind probably the greatest agony in history that mankind has ever faced. It is agonizing to even imagine the world being revisited by the horrendous events between 1938 and 1945. More than six million people (most of them Jews) were murdered in a state-sponsored spree led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany during the World War 2. The event of the Holocaust have been captured in several books and films each trying to capture the horrific memories of the events in the best way they know how. In the film Night ...

A critique of Final JFK Conspiracy Paper

Introduction Bartholomae is an expert of literature whose work, “Inventing the University” remains a resourceful tool for genre analysis and understanding. My paper, JFK Conspiracy paper attempted to adopt some of the skills and lessons picked from his works. JKF Conspiracy paper is an historical account of the conspiracy and intrigues that surrounded the assassination of John F Kennedy. It adopts the lessons learnt from the work of Batholomae. In that paper, I explain why I believe the JFK assassination was a conspiracy and why I strongly believe the government was involved. I approach the paper in an impressive ...

Introduction

Archeology has helped scholars to reconstruct the story of the Bible from its utopist genesis to epic battles and struggles of the patriarchs of Israel. Archeologists have found evidence of the kingdoms, kings, temples and the people of Biblical times. Archeological excavations have corroborated some biblical events, contradicted others while entirely dismissing the occurrence of others because of the absence of archeological evidence and logical proof (Finkelstein & Silberman 15). This paper will examine the existing archeological evidence in relation to the biblical accounts of the Exodus and the life of Jesus in Early Rome. The paper will analyze two ...

I) A) What aspect(s) of film theory and practice are highlighted here?

B) What are the author’s central concerns in writing the article?

According to Carlos Berg’s “Every Picture Tells a Story”, the cartoonist and illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada (1857-1913), was a key influence if the early development of Mexican cinema in the late-19th and early-20th Centuries, because the proto-cinematic techniques he used in his drawings at least anticipated those that filmmakers from many countries would use. Among these were the close-up, cinematic-style narrative, flashbacks and foreshadowing, and the use of tilt and angles to create perspective. Berg’s main point is that many of the methods of popular illustrators ...

Different individuals learn through many ways/methods. Some of the learning styles include visual (spatial), verbal (linguistic), Logical, social solitary and physical. Each individual utilizes the different learning methods in different proportions. It is worth mentioning that individuals that have a high efficiency in using different learning styles have the highest ability of understanding different aspects within their stipulated curriculum or even in having general knowledge. Research has shown that such students achieve better grades than the rest. I did a test to determine my ability to use the different learning styles. I scored significantly high points in the logical learning ...

1. Explain how they represent the fundamental ideas and techniques of that movement while at the same time reflecting the individual styles of the filmmakers involved. In The History of the Devil, the idea of Satan as a philosophical and psychological figure throughout history is examined, in a History Channel-documentary style program that demonstrates the new direction for these kinds of televised documentaries. The filmmakers present an extremely slick and sensational documentary with this film, offering many different interviews, powerful narration by a haunting British voice, and many moving illustrations that are dynamic and provocative. The beginning title splash card involves a ...

1. The essay film is a particularly post-modern kind of documentary, as it focuses on a theme and concept, instead of following a strict plot or depicting a series of events. Unlike a Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War, for example, Bowling for Columbine employs a vast number of techniques to depict the state of the gun culture in America in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Bowling does not follow a strict progression, or a particular person or event, but spans the entirety of the debate in America - it moves from Columbine itself to the Michigan bank that gives guns for bank accounts, and ...

Introduction

Sathya Sai Baba was born on 23 November 1926 and was named Sathya Narayana Raju. He is a famous yet controversial guru in India having numerous followers and groups in countries around the world. He claimed in his teen age that fakir Shirdi actual “Sai Baba” was reincarnated in him. On this basis he renamed himself as Sai Baba. He further claimed to be omnipotent and omniscience in subsequent years. In his influential regions he was known to have manifested holy ash and other little objects like watches and rings which he claimed to materialize from nothing. His followers still ...

Beauty or Truth: Point of View in ‘Roger & Me’ and ‘The Man With the Camera’

Documentary filmmaking is a matter of perspective. Few examples exist of strictly objective and scrupulously balanced documentary considerations of a given subject or issue. This would, after all, amount to little more than straightforward journalism, and a simple recounting of facts. But Michael Moore’s tactics, the film’s exaggerated line of questioning and the mock serio-comic tone that Moore adopts in his narrative clearly identify Roger & Me as anything but journalistic. In a 1990 New York Times review, Richard Bernstein noted that “Mr. Moorewas no more operating within the standard framework of journalism than was Jonathan Swift when he wrote his ‘Modest ...

Documentary Analysis

Four corner documentary: Rise of Super Bugs

The four corner documentary is a quarter hour video that fairly discloses the use and misuse of antibiotics. While drugs have done wonders in the medicinal field, at the same time, its incorrect usage have lead to secondary and tertiary problems. With a view to kill the bugs through antibiotics, mankind has given rise to superbugs that tangibly and intangibly causes more harm to our body systems. The documentary on the rise of super bugs depicts the extreme positive effects of antibiotics. This documentary is a fine example of the use of drugs and medicines ...

Assignment One: Portfolio of work Maximum

Skyfall Plot

A hard-drive that contains vital information about all the NATO operatives, who are undercover in the terrorist organizations, has been stolen and the head of British Intelligence – M is put under an embarrassing scrutiny by bureaucrats. After a near near-death incident, an out of colour 007 is sent out to retrieve the drive, as he is led to a man called Silva, who is out on a revenge mission to destroy both MI6 and M.

Review

Sam Mendes seems to be playing with the old themes, as well as the new ones with the return of 007 on its 50th ...

Introduction

Bullying in schools is not a new phenomenon but is an activity that has been in existence for ages. A good proportion of students and adults have accounts of their experiences with bullying or have witnessed their peers bullied in what a turned out to be a serious problem in the society with variant detrimental effects that range from emotional effects to negative effects on a student’s academic performance. Teens between the age of 13 and 19 year are perhaps the greatest users of the technology, particularly the internet. The National Crime Prevention Council (2007) contends that teens between the age of ...

I first became fascinated with the story of the Titanic when I was ten years old in 1997 and saw the movie, although later I learned that Cal Hockley, Rose DeWitt and Jack Dawson never really existed at all. It would have been nice if they had, but at least the movie inspired me to start reading books about what really happened on that fatal voyage in 1912, starting with Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember. Over time, I learned many details, such as the fact that Thomas Andrews, the architect and designer of the ship, really existed ...

Introduction

A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.

Documentary analysis

The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...

Admission Essay

The desire to become a cardiologist was conceived in me while watching a documentary on cardiology. I enjoyed the movie, specifically how cardiologist were saving a multitude of patients by surgery of the heart. I found it inevitable to look for more documentaries on cardiology. Inadvertently, my library was gradually becoming full with cardiology documentaries, books, journals and news articles. I just felt the urge to become a cardiologist hence join other cardiologists in saving patients suffering from the plethora of cardiopathic disorders. In light of my desire to pursue a course in cardiology, it is my only wish that I join an ...

Bus 174 is a documentary that takes us through the incidence of June 12 2000 where a young man hijacked the bus and terrorized the passengers. After four hours of the experience, the police came in and in their attempt to shoot the young man, they short one of the hostages who was a woman. After interrogations with the young man, it was realized that he did not have a good background, which mainly contributed, to his criminal life. On the other hand, representing the body is literature by Bill Nichol who focuses on the representation of documentaries basing on historic facts. He ...

Admission Essay

It all started with an impulse to understand how things work. At some point, I went to the extent of wanting to open the back of our Television set in a bid to understand how “people got in in the television”, or at least get in and be seen on television. I was smidge 3 years old, and little did I know that I was gaining interest in the engineering field. My father was particularly helpful in helping me nurture this scintillating urge to become an engineer. On realizing that I was fascinated with “how things work”, he embarked on a ...

I used to spend most of my holidays watching television. Out of concern, my mum declared that I was only entitled to watch two documentary programs plus one additional one of my choice. The rest of the time was to be spent doing homework of reading novels. Though frustrating, as it was, it was not long before I started enjoying the documentary programs. I never noticed that I was slowly getting inclined to watching documentaries revolving around famous architectural structures of the world. The thought if being a civil engineer stroke me one day while watching a documentary of the famous ...

Summary on George Washington Article

In this article, Richard Brookhiser, (2002) explains about capturing the life of George Washington for the purpose of being televised. He explains that Americans bestow a lot of respect to their fore fathers despite the fact that they know very little history. He does this in collaboration with Michael Pack who he had known since early eighties. Richard claims that dealing with historical documentary was new to both of them since they had been dealing with political issues. Richard was a political journalist whose attention was on dead politicians while Michael had been dealing with political documentaries for the last fifteen ...

A marketplace of ideas can be defined as freedom granted to individuals to express their views, under the umbrella of liberty. It is rising beyond the analogy of economic barriers and other legislative restrictions in order to make known one’s ideas. The concept is said to influence truth and accountability, since it generates a competitive environment whence perceptions and personal ideologies can be expressed.

The concept is however not ideally viable, due to the countless constraints that are present at any one given place and time. The nature of the marketplace of ideas has been marred by commercial quests, ...

Eye of the Beholder: Guilt and Politics in ‘The Thin Blue Line’

1. In her treatise, Patricia Aufderheide explains that documentaries offer a portrait of real life that seeks not to manipulate the material being presented (Aufderheide, 2007). The documentary generally puts forth some kind of analytical argument or story in a narrative flow. The Thin Blue Line meets those criteria, but pushes the boundaries of this kind of storytelling. In fact, Errol Morris’ 1988 film is one of the most interesting attempts to combine intensive interviews with interpretive imagery and staged recreations of the events in question. As one of the first documentaries to adopt what was, at the time, a hybrid approach, ...

This article reviews the rising popularity of nature documentaries and films that was taking place in August; 2007.This is against the backdrop of movies like the Winged Migration and the March of the Penguins. This period also saw the release of films like the Arctic Tale with the release of Elephants of the Okavango, Turtle’s Song and Earth to follow. It also discusses the success of Meerkat Manor by Animal Planet. Following two successful seasons, Meerkat Manor inspired the BBC and Discovery Network to produce their versions (Rebensdorf, 1).

These documentaries have in fact earned themselves the name ‘ ...

Our society has been influenced by television since its invention in 1920’s. Likewise, film production, being a part of magnificent TV empire, seems to manipulate people greatly without them realizing it. Namely, it may impose and establish stereotypes of racial-ethnic groups, thus, perpetuating strong, more often negative, images of a specific racial group in society’s consciousness. On the contrary, films can also impose positive attitude towards racial issue, making people feel themselves as a comprehensive whole, disregarding race, gender and age. This makes film industry very helpful in getting rid of stereotypes. It may seem paradoxical, but it is media that ...