Creative Writer as Critical Reader | Shields | MW 11:30-1:20 |
We'll look at ~10 self-reflexive documentary films 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.