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A Rogerian Perspective Documentary

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

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 ...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Last Abortion Clinic/ A Frontline Documentary

This research paper describes a documentary, "The Last Abortion Clinic," which aired on PBS's Frontline in 2005. Eight pages in le...

Profit Motive and the Destruction of Health in "Food, Inc."

determined to adopt sustainable practice, more attention than ever is being leveled at what we eat. Some experts believe that ther...

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 ...

Analysis of 1976 Documentary The Kawelka Ongka's Big Moka

In two pages this documentary on the Papua, New Guinea tribe known as the Kawelka is discussed in terms of what an uncivilized cul...

Analysis of 1987 Documentary Cannibal Tours

In two pages Dennis O'Rourke's 1987 documentary is analyzed especially in terms of its effective employment of both irony and humo...

Analysis of 1964 Dead Birds Documentary

In two pages this ethnographic documentary that focuses on Western New Guinea's primitive tribe known as Dani is examined in terms...

Life and Works of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In three pages this paper that is based upon documentaries compares and contrasts Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. in terms of...

Cinematic Classification of Documentaries, Comedies, and Dramas

expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...

Are TV Documentaries Informative or Propagandist?

In five pages this essay discusses the appropriateness of television networks to examine issues from a partisan perspective....

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

Social Theory and Michael Moore's 1989 Documentary Roger and Me

In five pages this paper applies symbolic interactionism and conflict social theories to Michael Moore's documentary of onetime Ge...

Documentary Analysis 'The Art of Survival'

positive and joyful. Although some of his work deals with his horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazi, the emphasis in Janka...

Overview of Documentary Television

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...

Nation of Islam Documentary

leadership. Though significant changes have occurred in Chicago since the 1960s, the continuation of ideals that were integrated ...

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 ...

Documentary Photography Defined

1980s and things change. From the 1980s to contemporary times, theoretical writing on art, film, popular culture, feminism and pol...