DocumentingJustice

Documenting Justice is an interdisciplinary course in ethnographic filmmaking and critical journalism, tracing the ways in which documentary filmmakers and journalists have sought to represent culture and the relationship between the individual and society. Students devote two semesters to completing the class, which involves study in critical journalism, visual anthropology, ethnographic film, and the ethics of cinematic non-fiction, culminating in the creation of an original seven to nine minute film. The aim of the class is to learn how to use both film and the written word to document and analyze the many dimensions of culture and social experience at issue when focusing on a story of justice or injustice in Alabama or internationally.

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