Preface:
- For my Contemporary Screen Media and Society module (FX2007) as part of my Film and Screen Media course at University College Cork, I was tasked with creating a website that houses two blog posts, with each of them being related to the field of documentary filmmaking.
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- For the first post, I was asked to survey in relation to Ava DuVernay’s the 13th, “the ways in which screen media has contributed to discourses on race, in both negative and positive ways. Whilst making specific reference to the Black Lives Matter movement.”
- For the second post, I was asked to “Discuss the various ways in which the body/the corporeal is represented to be at the centre of Nan Goldin’s art and activism in Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”.
Welcome to my Film Studies Analysis Project!
Here you can delve into two insightful academic posts, both of which investigate into socio-cultural issues raised by a duo of documentaries from their respective creators; Ava DuVernay and Laura Poitras.
In response to the issues that each of their documentaries discuss; such as race relations in the 13th by Ava DuVernay, and the empowerment that derives from separating the human body and mind as prevalent in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
These posts each evaluate the documentaries and their creators endeavours, to make an insightful and engaging piece of audio-visual commentary, that captures and displays the issues at the centre of each which plauge contemporary society.
Seán Leahy's Cinematic Portfolio 