Documentaries & Social Justice
Documentaries & Social Justice In this course, students will explore how contemporary documentaries perform social justice via different rhetorical filmmaking styles—including direct cinema, verité, and investigations—and specific social justice tactics—including explicit and implicit calls for change, social pressure, and activism. After watching documentaries and reading reviews, interviews, and theories of filmmaking, students will write various analyses and codes of ethics for documentary films. The final project has students either produce or storyboard their own short social justice-oriented films.
Professor James Sanchez is such a happy person and he is always ready to help you with anything. His syllabus is extremely well distributed with heavy tasks and his expectations are very reasonable. Classes are fun and full of discussions
Professor Sanchez is one of the best professors at Middlebury. I say this because not only is he incredibly supportive of his students but he is extremely knowledgeable about the topics he teaches. I remember early in the semester I had told him about my fear of public speaking and he was super helpful in helping me feel comfortable in his class even though the class was mostly discussion based. His classroom expectations were very clear from the beginning of the course and his grading rubrics were straightforward.
Professor Sanchez is one of the best professors at Middlebury. I say this because not only is he incredibly supportive of his students but he is extremely knowledgeable about the topics he teaches. I remember early in the semester I had told him about my fear of public speaking and he was super helpful in helping me feel comfortable …Read more
Professor Sanchez is very passionate about what he is teaching and is very clear with what he expects in the assigned papers. He gives clear feedback on papers and allows for corrections. I highly recommend taking any course with him.