Documentary letters of credit have historically been an important and popular method of payment in international trading transactions. In fact, they have been described as the “lifeblood of international commerce.” A number of uniform international practices have developed for their use, many of which are codified in international rules such as Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credi...

In his article "Representing Postmodern Marginality in Three Documentary Films" Robert LeBlanc traces the emergence of new epistemologies of documentary film experience within the cases of three recent films that explore the subject's experience of marginality as central to its constitution as subject. These films -by Marlon Riggs, Chad Friedrichs, and Jessica Yu -explore the crises of self-rep...

With the deepening of reform and opening up in China increase international cultural exchanges, more English documentaries have entered Chinese audience’s view, scholars also focused on translation documentary subtitles. Documentary is a new type carrier suitable for communication. As branch film art, often has educational significance while entertaining audience. It shoulders mission dissemina...

This work is part of a larger action research project aiming to establish critical documentary making as a classroom activity in special needs and mainstream schools. The first part, the Bachelor’s thesis, ascertained the rationale for critical documentary making as a tool for critical pedagogy in schools. The second part, this Master’s thesis, proposes a theoretical framework and pedagogical p...

This article presents a review of Hard to Believe, a compelling documentary reporting the forced organ procurement and death of Chinese prisoners of conscience. The documentary is targeted to ignite political and public pressure to stop these practices that are thought to be motivated by financial and political gain. Narrated by journalist and author Ethan Gutmann, the documentary pricks at the...

On the face of it Hearing Voices is an informative and evocative BBC commissioned radio documentary, based on endangered click languages from the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. It juxtaposes recordings of some of the languages in question (both spoken and sung), followed up with translation into English, environmental field recordings that help place the listener into the location, not forgetting...

Although a vast amount of contents and knowledge has been made available in electronic format and on the web in recent years, translators still do not have friendly and targeted tools at their disposal for the various aspects of a translation process, i.e., the analysis phase, automatic creation and management of the linguistic resources needed and automatic updating with the relevant informati...

This study examined whether viewing a documentary that depicts individuals with schizophrenia can reduce psychiatric stigma. One hundred and sixty-three individuals were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: no documentary film, documentary about polar bears, documentary about fears of being overweight, and documentary about schizophrenia. Participants also completed a battery of tasks a...