my project
i thought that filmmakers often desire to affect social problems and to inspire social change in such issues as race, gender, identity, and sexuality. So... I decided to take a position to discuss that documentary film is a vehicle for social change because documentary film offers more flexibility in discussing the truth of human nature from the perspective of our common experience than do other media forms such as editorial news and newspapers which have a more limited format and targeted audience. Furthermore, documentary films can immediately address current social circumstances that audiences may not be aware of and it is a strongly persuasive method that the directors use to motivate audiences to participate in the cause. Documentary film calls upon the audience to act in clever and critical ways in dealing with social issues that harm society. Documentary film is an especially effective mode of expression for feminist filmmakers and feminist theorists to present their arguments.
I watched.....
Monster (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins, LIve Nude Gils Unite!, Boys don't cry, selling of a serial killer directed by Nick Broomfield.
I though reading interviews about each director helped me alot to know why they chose to make documentary film to evoke audience for social change. I searched each director's website to dig more information on movie and most of them were making film to alert problems in our society. I discusses Ann Kaplan and Mulvey's theorty and our course reading "feminism and documentary" to enlarge my knowledge on documentary film and the gaze in documentary film.
I recommend others to watch the movie MOnster and the Selling of a Serial Killer to know how this two movie uses the story of Aileen's killing story to evoke audience's reception.