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Long overdue thanks to those who responded to my query re: texts and materials for a seminar on documentary history & theory. Members of this list are tremendously resourceful. I've also been following the invigorating discussions of documentary here, and these are certainly helping me to formulate and frame the questions I want the seminar to address. Did anyone catch the special on cinema verité that aired recently on Sundance? I caught just the end of it--fascinating footage of an activist organization teaching folks in Kosovo to operate DV cameras so they can document what's "really" happening and post it on the internet, as opposed to the stories told by the institutionalized media. Meanwhile, I'm trying to formulate a kind of Bakhtinian metalinguistic set of definitions of documentary--anyone else chasing that sort of thing? This from Boris Vidovic got me thinking about working on that again: >>There is a >whole genre that stands between fact and fiction: pornography. I think this >is exactly the reason for both its appeal and repulsivness: the audience >appreciates that there is no 'faking', and film theorists (appart from >scorning it) have problems with putting it in the right box... Not sure how this will go over down here at the "old war skule" but it's just the kind of performance issue I've been sharpening my pencils for. Thanks, Trish Patricia A. Suchy Dept. of Speech Communication Louisiana State University 136 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578-6838 [log in to unmask]