Documentary Film as a Catalyst for Social Change

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Documentary Film as a Catalyst for Social Change

by WOODROW BRYANT HOOD           I n “Leaving It Up to the Imagination:  POV Shots and Imagining from the Inside” in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Jinhee Choi argues that, “The POV shot has taken a special place in film theories as a device that leads the viewer to identify with a character, by making the viewer replicate the perceptual state of the character” (17).  In the article, Choi is referring to a single character POV.  In...

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