Night and Fog: At the Intersections of Cinema and History

Due Friday, November 13, using the comment feature, post an analysis of one specific aspect of Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog 1) using Nichols' modes of documentary and 2) describing, through a social justice lens, what you view as the complicated relationship between cinema and history. You can screen Night and Fog at https://vimeo.com/74528039
Warning: This film, using new color footage and old black and white footage from concentrations camps, can be a very difficult film to view because of its graphic nature. 

Chanan-Rules of Evidence

Write a written reflection on the Chanan reading. Post on the course blog before Monday. Your response need not be long, but must clearly indicate careful reading (or attention to a lecture or film) and thoughtful reflection.  You must respond to two of the three questions.

The reflections consist of three questions:

1) What is the main point of the reading?

2) What information did you find surprising? Why?

3) What did you find confusing? Why?

Aufderheide's documentary sub-genres

Describe the videos using Aufderheide’s classification of documentary sub-genres and evidence from the videos. Connect at least one example in one of the videos to Kahana (The intelligence work of documentary). The docs to screen are:
Navy WW II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdgPstNlfWQ

New Orleans, post Katrina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbyoBLnln0

PETA undercover  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zx0Oju8U4

There's an old adage that claims a picture is worth a thousand words. Could you write a thousand words about this picture in 1943? What do you think is going on here? Where in the world might this picture have been taken? What details do you notice?