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Global Lens: Documenting the World (Film)   

**Note that the Online version of this course you will watch the films on your own and then log into Zoom for a one hour lecture and discussion. Once registered you will receive instructions on where to get the film and how to login to Zoom.** Experience views from abroad, courtesy of filmmakers and television producers working in their own countries and speaking to their fellow citizens. Revealing, refreshing and occasionally jarring, this class features a variety of documentary approaches and techniques. Each film, which has almost certainly never been seen by U.S. audiences, is followed by a discussion of its goals, strategies, choices and ethics. We will examine such aspects of nonfiction filmmaking as point of view, the illusion of objectivity, journalism v. activism, the use of music and metaphor, and the blurring of fact and fiction. FILMS FOR ONLINE COURSE - March/April 2020: 1. It's Getting Dark (France) - A gutsy glimpse of the lives of the families of four Russian political prisoners. 2. Beloved (Iran) - Four seasons in the life of a solitary, female octogenarian herder of cows. 3. Anticlockwise (Iran) - A first-person doc about a political Iranian family.

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