CIN312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harlan County, Usa, The Spanish Earth, Resettlement Administration
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Their interaction is a key to this moment. Documentary voice: the film"s particular form of engagement with the world. The poetic mode : alternative forms of knowledge. Instead of direct arguments, the poetic doc stresses tone, mood, feel , Drawn from actuality, its images convey a feeling or impression . Exposition: assemble materials in a rhetorical form. An authoritative voice-over accompanied by images, info, titles . Direct address about a manner or issue; an argument. Images appear to confirm assertions made by the voice-over. Coal face, night mail, and song of ceylon contain poetic moments. So do borinage, the plow, and the spanish earth. But the poetic is offset slightly by exposition. Vertov, ivens: committed leftists working after the intro of sound. The 1930"s: a period of upheaval in the usa. Artists: art should have an activist dimension . Directive: tale photos of drought, poverty, the people , etc. Part of fdr"s larger mandate: provide relief to citizens.
