KEEPING IT REAL: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND NONFICTION
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ENGFLM 1683 - KEEPING IT REAL: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND NONFICTION


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course explores the nature and impact of the non fiction film, its changing forms, strategies for movies, and claims to veracity and objectivity. It is concerned with identifying types of documentary, the "motives" of such films, their audience and the problems posed by "documenting reality." This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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