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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Hilla Lavie
Coordinator Office Hours:
Thursday 11am
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Hilla Lavie
Course/Module description:
The course brings together documentary cinema and historical research in a way that reveals different challenging political and cinematic questions. We will look at the ways in which filmmakers represent historical events, and explore the various cinematic means they use ( narrative, photography, archival material) in order to shape political and social messages in their films , and ask whether documentary films can change history. At the same time, we will explore how historical reality can be better understood through a critical reading of documentary films in the context in which they were created, and address some of the challenging issues common to documentary filmmaking and the writing a historical research, including collective memory, historical truth, documenting the "other" in society and the ethics of documentation.
All films mentioned and screened during the course will be available online (through the media department). We will also watch films that deal with the police (in Israel and other countries) and examine the various cinematic rhetoric used by the filmmakers to shape the role and activities of the police in the public sphere.
Course/Module aims:
1. Knowledge of the basic concepts of documentary cinema and important stations in the history of documentary cinema
2. Familiarity with the ways historians use documentary films as primary and secondary historical sources
3. Providing tools for analyzing critically documentary films and examining how films seek to shape viewers' historical and political consciousness
4. Discussing ethical issues shared by both documentary filmmakers and historians
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. differentiate between documentary film genres and be able to recognize the way documentary filmmakers use cinematic language to tell a story
2. understand the ways historians use documentary films as historical sources
3. examine central historical and political issues represented in documentary films
4. analyze critically documentary films
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lectures, discussions, watching film clips
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction - Documentary Cinema: Basic Concepts and Historical Questions
2. Documentary modes
3. Documentary films and propaganda
4. Documentary filmmaking and the forming of a collective memory (1)
5. Documentary filmmaking and the forming of a collective memory (2)
6. The documentary film and the historical truth (1)
7. Documentary films as agents of social and political change (1)
8. Documentary films as agents of social and political change (2)
9. Documenting the “other” in society - the "other" documents society
10. Documentary Challenges: violence, ethics and responsibily (1)
11. Documentary Challenges: violence, ethics and responsibily (2)
12. End of course assignment
Required Reading:
ביל ניקולס, "כיצד להגדיר קולנוע תיעודי?", בתוך אמת או חובה: מבחר מאמרים על קולנוע תיעודי, נערך על-ידי אוהד לנדסמן ולליב מלמד, 37-71. תל אביב: עם עובד, 2021.
(רשות:)
John Grierson, Forsyth Hardy, Grierson on Documentary,
Berkley/Los Angeles, 1966, 145-157
אילן אבישר, "תיעוד ועיצוב של תודעה היסטורית בסרטי תעמולה", בתוך: זמנים - רבעון להיסטוריה 39-40, חורף 1991, 38-47
אנטון קייס, "היסטוריה וקולנוע: זיכרון ציבורי בעידן התקשורת האלקטרונית", זמנים 39-40, חורף 1991, 37-28
ענת באלינט, "בעקבות 'תקומה': הסלקציה היא הקונספציה", בתוך: העין השביעית, 1.05.1998
https://www.the7eye.org.il/23022
סאלח, והאיש שלא היה שם (עידו אפרת, הארץ 26.04.18 )
לינדה ויליאמס, "מראות ללא זיכרונות: אמת, היסטוריה והקולנוע התיעודי החדש", בתוך אמת או חובה: מבחר מאמרים על קולנוע תיעודי, נערך על-ידי אוהד לנדסמן ולליב מלמד, 183-202. תל אביב: עם עובד, 2021.
(רשות):
Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary, Bloomington, 2010, 212-252 (Chapter 8: “How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues?"
"לשנות את המציאות, להעיד על עצמנו: אתיקה, דוקו-אקטיביזם והמבט אל האחר ב-'52/50' "ו'חיים יקרים'", בתוך: תקריב 11, 15.11.2015
Yael Munk, "Ethics and Responsibility: The Feminization of the New Israeli Documentary", in: Israel Studies 16 (2), July 2011, 151-164
שמוליק דובדבני, '"כל עוד אתה מצייר ולא מצלם, זה בסדר:" סוגיות של אתיקה ואחריות בסרט 'ואלס עם באשיר'", בתוך: מכאן, כתב־עת לחקר הספרות והתרבות היהודית והישראלית, כרך יג', אוקטובר 2013 , 50-67
סוזן זונטג, להתבונן בסבלם של אחרים, מודן, 2005, 38-64
Additional Reading Material:
Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2008
מיכל אביעד, קולנוע תיעודי, סל תרבות ארצי הוצאה לאור, 2007
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 85 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 15 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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