Documentary Traditions II

Catalog description

14 contemporary and influential filmmakers will be present to show their work (often works-in-progress) and discuss the challenges they face as modes of production and distribution continually change. Former guests have included D. A. Pennebaker, David Grubin, Les Blank, Albert Maysles, Sam Pollard, Susanne Rostock and others whose work is regularly seen on television and in theaters. Undergraduates who take the course for three points are required to keep journals in which they respond to each session and compare observations with those made when viewing at least one documentary of their choice seen outside class, as well as in response to critical essays provided at each session and references in the text. Those wishing to earn an extra point (register for one point of FMTV-UT 1097 Independent Study) may write a substantial term paper based on a topic approved by the instructor.