How has film been used as a means to document everyday life? Refer to TWO films. You should explain why you have chosen the films and why you think considering them side by side allows us new insight into the politics of everyday life.

The films that will be referred
1) Modern Times (1936) -https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00002449?bcast=125974776
2)Hans Richter, Everyday 1929 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfByFPd0dY4

It will be good if the references are given from the bibliography list below
Aitken, Ian, ed. (1998), The Documentary Film Movement: An
Anthology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Aitken, Ian (1990), Film and Reform: John Grierson and the
Documentary Film Movement, London: Routledge.
• Anthony, Scott & James G. Mansell, eds. (2011), The Projection
of Britain: A History of the GPO Film Unit, London: Palgrave
Macmillan.
• Baker, Simon and Dawn Ades (2008), Close-Up: Proximity and
De-Familiarisation in Art, Film and Photography, Edinburgh:
Fruitmarket Gallery.
• Cowie, Elizabeth (2001), ‘Giving Voice to the Ordinary: Mass
Observation and the Documentary Film,’ new formations, vol.
44, pp.100-109.
• Hardy, Forsyth, ed. (1966), Grierson on Documentary, London:
Faber.
• Highmore, Ben (2002), Everyday Life and Cultural Theory,
London: Routledge.
• Russell, Patrick & James Taylor, eds. (2010), Shadows of
Progress: Documentary Film in Postwar Britain, London:
Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sheringham, Michael (2006), Everyday Life: Theories and
Practices from Surrealism to the Present, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
• Sussex, Elizabeth (1975), The Rise and Fall of British
Documentary, Berkeley: University of California Press.

choose relevant material from the task
bibliography, to show detailed engagement with the texts, and to make
informed use of these in your essay.

essay should be centred on a clear argument. It should be formed on the
basis of your secondary reading and in turn on your analysis of primary
sources. Your argument should be carefully contextualised in relation to
secondary sources and evidenced using analysis of primary sources either
those provided in additional materials or bibliography list