Pick a TV documentary, watch and analyze it, discussing the ways in which it might aspire to be an intervention rather than just a commentary.
1/ In his piece “Civic Visions: Forms of Documentary,” John Corner seeks to give the documentary genre more agency by describing it as ideally an “intervention…in the public arena rather than as [a] commentary upon (mostly predefined) issues.” Pick a TV documentary, watch and analyze it, discussing the ways in which it might aspire to […]