Spring 2027

Documentary Film: Representation and Reality

Explores fact/fiction in documentary film, analyzing experimental techniques and filmmakers’ portrayals of reality.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Kelley Conway3.9/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.43 GPA, 68.2% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.18 GPA, 55.9% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify major trends in classical and contemporary documentary film practice.

  • Critically reflect on assumptions pertaining to genre and representation.

  • Explain the unfixed boundaries between documentary, narrative, and avant-garde film modes.

  • Apply theoretical terminology through detailed film analysis.

  • Analyze similarities, differences, and intersections in the philosophies ofnonfiction filmmakers and film scholars.

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COMARTS 358

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Raw average: 4.03/5 from 30 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.18 GPA, 55.9% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KELLEY ANN CONWAY is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.43 GPA, 68.2% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.18 GPA, 55.9% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Fact and fiction in documentary; boundaries between documentary, narrative, and avant-garde modes.
  • Experimental techniques, truth, representation, and nonfiction filmmaker/scholar philosophies.

Skills

  • Identify trends in documentary practice and critically reflect on genre and representation.
  • Explain boundaries between film modes and apply theoretical terminology through detailed film analysis.

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COMARTS 358 · Spring 2027

Documentary Film: Representation and Reality

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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