The American Experience of Teaching Documentary Theory

Abstract

One of the genres of television journalism is a documentary. The history of documentary filmmaking develops in parallel with film production. This genre of cinema, which began its development in the second half of the XIX century, developed from Europe, the USSR, the USA. Currently, a documentary is a developed television genre. Documentaries are divided into several types depending on the type and content, chronos and facts, goals and interests. This is a pattern. The article focuses on the study of the theory of documentary film in practice in the USA. Currently, as the most developed country in the world, the US journalism is also leading. In the training of American journalists, a review of the practice of teaching the theory of documentary film is given. The article provides an overview of the practice of training American journalists, teaching the theory of documentary cinema. We tried to analyze individually 6 main types of a documentary in classification and meaningful transformation.  In addition, a review of the history of the development of documentary films in the United States with creative contacts of world film heroes will be conducted. In the course of the study, the art and creativity of famous American movie characters were studied and analyzed. Among them are Robert Joseph Flaherty, Thomas Edison, Mark Dintenfass, Gus Bakker, Richard Koszarski, John Grierson, Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Steiner, etc.