Rockumentaries are commodities that construct authoritative interpretations of popular music history, shaping how we come to know, value, hear, consume, and identify with popular music and those who create it. The arguments rockumentaries make, and the ways they make them, are t…
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Schizophrenia disables individuals and destroys families. It occurs with the frequency of one in a hundred people in all societies regardless of race, religion, gender, cultural, social, economic background and geographical area. It is probably the most 'unknown' and one of the …
This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance outlawed discrimination in employment, housing, and public…
Recent scholarship treats the transition to the digital format in documentary film as a straightforward change in production practices or distribution channels, ignoring the deeper implications of digital technology for non-fiction moving image media. Far from a simple transitio…
This thesis presents a framing for analyzing forms of visual interventions by international photojournalists, documentary photographers, and filmmakers during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (with the focus on Russia) in the 1990s. The framing rests on the distin…
The project of self-representation utilizing fictional techniques appears in several recent autobiographical documentaries by Ashkenazi Jewish filmmakers. These independent and avant-garde films, which have proliferated in the two last decades, deploy “new,” “postmodern,” strate…
This doctoral submission grew out of a series of long form documentaries that I wrote, produced, and directed between 1993 and the present. The films, which were broadcast on US television's PBS network, all deal with scientific, medical, or environmental issues that developed i…