CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

Week 4    May 4 th National Holiday: No Class ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 5 ★ May 11 th Rethinking Documentary Cinema: But what is Documentary Anyway? Required Reading Nichols, Bill. 2010. “How Can We Define Documentary Film”, Introduction to Documentary (second edition), Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press: 1-41 [click HERE ] [CLICK HERE to download the 2017 version intro titled "How do we Define Documentary"; you could choose to read either the 2010 version, or the latest version] Film for Discussion (possibly discussed in class) 1. Nanook of the North , Dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922 etc. [YouTube link HERE ] 2.  the City , Dir. Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke, 1939  [YouTube link HERE ] 3. if possible, another documentary(-ies) mentioned in the introduction.

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mass game in North Korea NOTE: pw is needed; expiration date for the download is the end of month. Required Reading Higson, Andrew. 1989. “The Concept of National Cinema”, Screen 30 (4): 36-47. [click HERE ]                                  2006. “The Limiting Imagination of National Cinema”, Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader , edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden, Routledge, p15-25 [click HERE ] Anderson, Benedict. 1983. “Introduction”, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Revised Edition. First published by Verso. [click HERE ]

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