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The late philosopher/deconstructionist Jacques Derrida once referred to the animal species as the "ends of man...an existence that refuses to be
Until we become parents, our own parents are those mythical, mystical authority figures whom we have only known as authority figures. Your parents
As an 11-year old in 1958, I watched the Disney film White Wilderness. We see a cute little bear cub lose its footing on a steep, snow-covered
The use of re-enactment in documentary is as old as the form itself, yet it remains persistently controversial, and there is nothing else that better
As primetime television continues to phase out scripted fare in favor of more inexpensively produced "reality" programming, and as documentaries
On Monday, November 16, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña will be in conversation with Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her decades-long
Parsing Essential Truth and Literal Truth
Assignment: Write an article on whether or not documentary filmmakers should pay their subjects. Dilemma: What's to discuss? Conventional wisdom in