In his article "Representing Postmodern Marginality in Three Documentary Films" Robert LeBlanc traces the emergence of new epistemologies of documentary film experience within the cases of three recent films that explore the subject's experience of marginality as central to its constitution as subject. These films -by Marlon Riggs, Chad Friedrichs, and Jessica Yu -explore the crises of self-rep...

BACKGROUND Diabetes educators provide self-management education for people living with diabetes to promote optimal health and wellbeing. Their national association is the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA), established in 1981. In Australia the diabetes educator workforce is a diverse, interdisciplinary entity, with nurses, podiatrists, dietitians and several other health professi...

This work is part of a larger action research project aiming to establish critical documentary making as a classroom activity in special needs and mainstream schools. The first part, the Bachelor’s thesis, ascertained the rationale for critical documentary making as a tool for critical pedagogy in schools. The second part, this Master’s thesis, proposes a theoretical framework and pedagogical p...

We present the ILIAD project and its current results. ILIAD aims at combining statistic and linguistic approaches in order to analyse information in large documentary databases. The resulting analysis should enable a human operator to collect the information content of a set of texts without having to read it sequentially. Our current experimentation concerns the analysis of a set of abstracts ...

We present the ILIAD project and its current results. ILIAD aims at combining statistic and linguistic approaches in order to analyse information in large documentary databases. The resulting analysis should enable a human operator to collect the information content of a set of texts without having to read it sequentially. Our current experimentation concerns the analysis of a set of abstracts ...

BACKGROUND In 1948 the first National Film Board (NFB) documentary in Canada about illegal drugs, trafficking, and addiction was produced. The documentary is titled Drug Addict, and was directed by Robert Anderson. This paper provides a socio-historical context for the documentary Drug Addict. Viewing the film through the lens of Canadian history gives readers a better context to understand the...

This article presents a review of Hard to Believe, a compelling documentary reporting the forced organ procurement and death of Chinese prisoners of conscience. The documentary is targeted to ignite political and public pressure to stop these practices that are thought to be motivated by financial and political gain. Narrated by journalist and author Ethan Gutmann, the documentary pricks at the...

This study examined whether viewing a documentary that depicts individuals with schizophrenia can reduce psychiatric stigma. One hundred and sixty-three individuals were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: no documentary film, documentary about polar bears, documentary about fears of being overweight, and documentary about schizophrenia. Participants also completed a battery of tasks a...

Public as a whole have different abilities in interpretation on the text media. Therefore, each issue necessary documentary media texts especially true delivery so as not to cause confusion in the interpretation of the message. In line with the rapid pace of information technology to make all information more easily accessible lead the audience (especially teenagers) became more confused in mak...