HAD-361 History of Documentary Film

3 Credits

• HAD-361-01

  Wednesday

  6:00 pm – 8:50 pm

  Online, ONLINE

  • Elena Rossi-Snook

This course is an exploration of the history of documentary film form the Lumiere Brothers in 1895 to Michael Moore and Ken Burns today, examining landmark works and presenting various movements and styles and notions of “truth”. It offers a chronological, analytical study of the emergence of documentary film as art, entertainment, information and persuasion.