We'll look at several self-reflexive documentary films, a theoretical book, personal essays, and critical essays as a way to get at such immemorial questions as: What is art? What is the relation of the artist to his or her material? What is the relation between 'fiction' and 'nonfiction'? What's public, what's private? What's remembered? What's imagined? What's 'true'? What's 'real'? Answers provided at end of course. Several brief response papers, one long critical essay.