The Documentary NOTES

Question 1

Documentary Hero

Answer 1

The SUBJECT is the Hero

Question 2

“The Atomic Cafe” about

Answer 2

Atomic bomb

Question 3

Atomic Cafe uses

Answer 3

Footage of atomic bombs (created entirely of FOUND footage)

Question 4

Atomic cafe manipulated _____

Answer 4

sound/music

Question 5

Bikini Atoll

Answer 5

Video in Atomic Cafe of correspondent telling Bikini Atoll citizens to leave b/c of bomb testing

Question 6

Atomic cafe included lots of _______ videos like the ironic Duck & Cover

Answer 6

propaganda

Question 7

GAZA Strip view/result

Answer 7

Partisan view + stockholm syndrome (that arises b/w empathetic investigator and sympathetic subject)

Question 8

Gaza strip sequence, hard to watch

Answer 8

Child going through pain (MANIPULATION of people’s reaction overlayed on audio)

Question 9

THE FOG OF WAR attempts

Answer 9

to paint reviled figure in history in a more HUMAN light

Question 10

For Fog of War Morris used device known as

Answer 10

Interrotron (for interviews)

Question 11

FOG of WAR about who?

Answer 11

Robert S. McNamara

Question 12

Fog of War divided into what?

Answer 12

Lessons

Question 13

Fog of War created/Manipulated

Answer 13

added video (ex. newspaper)

Question 14

Man on a Wire based on

Answer 14

True Story, Planning Phase + On Wire (no videos),

Question 15

Man on a Wire about

Answer 15

Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center.

Question 16

Grizzly Man by

Answer 16

Werner Herzog

Question 17

Grizzly Man about

Answer 17

Man who goes to live in Alaska with bears

Question 18

Grizzly Man subject

Answer 18

Fascinating, but dies in the end due to obvious reasons (w/ girlfriend, mother listens to audio )

Question 19

science & photography

Answer 19

to accurately judge past events required perception to be reconstituted
through MEMORY. The problem of memory transformed into a technological problem because
subjective elements of memory led to decay of their “facticity”. This problem was finally
resolved with the invention of PHOTOGRAPHY.

Question 20

what did photography provide?

Answer 20

A CONCRETE visual record

Question 21

central concept in documentary

Answer 21

Vivification: the goal of much truth-seeking lying in a film’s
attempt to make the audience feel the experience presented on screen.

Question 22

how does docu appeal to us?

Answer 22

‘epistephilia,’ the ‘pleasure in

knowing”.

Question 23

“voice of God”

Answer 23

omniscient
narrator, and the content of its narration is seen as true, rather than as the opinion of the
filmmaker or screenwriter.

Question 24

is documentary objective ?

Answer 24

no, documentary film is inextricably bound

up in the hierarchies of: race, gender, colonialism, and speciesism.