Media & Entertainment
The Documentary Form: How Nonfiction Cinema Constructs Truth
A deep exploration of documentary filmmaking as an art form and an argumentative practice — examining how nonfiction cinema uses structure, point of view, editing, ethics, and rhetoric to construct claims about reality. Drawing on landmark films from Nanook of the North to The Thin Blue Line to contemporary streaming docs, this course investigates the paradox at documentary's core: that representing "truth" always involves choices, and those choices shape what we believe.
