ANTH 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Primal Therapy, Structural Violence, The Florida Project
8 Dec 2018
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Godmilow"s critique of the act of killing as a horrible film. Her warnings about the film"s particular subgenre of documentary include: Think twice before reproducing displays of violent acts perpetrated on brown people by other brown people. Don"t produce freak shows of the criminal, the oppressed, or the primitive. Be fair to your subjects and social actors. Avoid building a film on the bedrock of pornography (ie. violence for the sake of violence) Avoid using documentary for confessions and/or primal therapy. The look of silence addresses many of these critiques (was in production prior to the act of. Follows an indirect victim of the genocide whose brother was brutally murdered. Confronts his brother"s killers by offering to make them glasses (somewhat ethically concerning) Contains firsthand, realistic accounts of the genocide that are more horrifying than the reenactments presented in the act of killing. Contextualizes the violence of the genocide for viewers.
