JCOM 320. Survey of the Documentary. 4 Credits.
This class will ground students in documentary film history and theory as art, journalism, and impactful statement. Documentary cinema is, as described, one of the greatest and most important mass media forms in society, media, and culture. Throughout the term, students will view, research, study, and write about Documentary as an essential part of media history and social history. For it is the documentary film that changed the cinema non-fiction documentary form itself and informed the world about every important event in history through that form.