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 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.