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Documentary Objectivity and Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will

In eight pages this paper considers the objectivity of documentary style filmmaking in this examination of Leni Riefensthahl's Tri...

Michel Foucault on Knowledge, Power, and Video Art

In six pages this paper examines how human interaction study can apply Michel Foucault's philosophies of knowledge and power as il...

Social Reality and Documentaries

documentaries ever made. Chronicling the 1934 session of Nazi Party Congress, Triumph of the Will has long been interpreted as pr...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Michael Moore's Academy Awards' Exercise of Free Speech

duties of an American to question leadership within the foundation of democracy, a reality that is fraught with consequences when ...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

Civil Rights and Federalism

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

The American Capitalists, Carnegie, and Alger

despite Dicks destitute life, he ends up all right in the end. Hes considered the consummate hero, the ideal rags-to-riches boy (o...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Roger and Me by Michael Moore

Moores documentary follows this dictum and offers scathing social commentary, demonstrating the flaws in the capitalist system, wh...

Essay on 1999 Documentary Nuyorican Dreams

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

Hoseini and Divorce Iranian Style

many of the cases a wife has brought charges against her husband for failing to financially provide for their family, perhaps enga...

Documentary Paradise Lost The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills

more than the rest: mental illness. Indeed, an adolescent individual who is suffering from any one of many forms of mentally inst...

Cuba of Fidel Castro

Castro's Cuba is examined in terms of the book and subsequent documentary about Castro's 1959 Cuban Revolution and discusses the f...

A Review of the Television Presentation The Real Malcolm X

This five page paper analyzes the CBS television program. The documentary reviews the Nation of Islam alongside Malcolm X's belie...

Characteristics of Mexican Cinema

(Mexican Film Institute) and the British Film Institute, a major two-month season of Mexican Cinema presented at the National Fil...

'Colored Journalism' in Michael Moore's 1989 Docudrama Roger and Me

a powerful and effective piece of cinematography, for in its subtlety and simplicity it displays the mark of excellence in tastefu...

Parts 2-5 of 'Eyes on the Prize'

voter registration of blacks, or talking back to a white person (38). One of these victims was Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old b...

Third Cinema and Documentary Film

In eleven pages this paper examines the development of documentary films in this Third Cinema practice and theory overview. Nine ...

A Comparison of Two Depictions of WWII

Soldiers of Destruction by Charles Sydnor and How Hitler Lost the War, the film documentary, are compared and contrasted in this t...

Australian Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke's 1991 Film The Good Woman of Bangkok

has nothing to do with love. But the idea of ORourkes full intent of his own trip to Thailand and that it had the potential to be ...

John Hersey's Hiroshima

loss of life and suffering. Many continue to claim that in reality there were no feasible alternatives to the use of atomic bombs...

The Work of Nations by Robert Reich and the PBS Frontline Telecast Bigger Than Enron

in 1993, which allowed corporations to avoid recording stock options on their balance sheets. According to a Merrill Lynch study, ...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

Ebola A Documentary Novel of Its First Explosion by William Close

personnel and nuns are left behind waiting and praying for help from the outside world while trying to deal with the overpowering ...

Documentary Film on the Impact of the Tet Offensive on the Vietnam War

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...