CINE 331 - Docufiction

FC ARHU

4 credits
This course investigates the porous boundary between fiction and non-fiction in the cinema. We move from the early ethnographic documentaries of the 1920s through the explosion of documentary work in the 1960s to the recent emergence of the hybrid category of docufiction. Topics to be explored include observation, reenactment, memory, subjectivity and truth. Each week our discussions will be informed by an historically significant film pitched at the border of documentary and fiction.