Peters Outline

Peter Leix

Plains Burnt Over-Thesis Outline

1. Intro- Autobiographical material- family history-, Jehovah's Witness beliefs and their influence on my association with Flint

2. Flints history- Why flint was chosen what happened, the genesis of the town as a manufacturing base, the initial wagon factories, early visionaries. All of this sets the backdrop to the the film in association with my own personal family history.

3. Character introduction- Why I chose them, their history, why I choose to follow them, the open ended narrative

3. context- Where do I fit in the spectrum of documentary of film. In regards to documentaries in general and more specifically autobiographical, post-industrial, personal narrative films

4 . The avant garde in visual of a documentary film, how do films made by former still photographers differ visually from those of non photographers and how have these films influenced the look of documentary film in general.

6. The genre blending documentary- How do films such as Bombay Beach and The Act of  Killing in future of documentary film. A discussion of a possible new mode of documentary film.

7. The role of a documentarian as a historian or ethnographer.

8. Ethics in Documentary film- How to walk the fine line of properly telling someones story without exploiting them

9. conclusion- how my work expands to the understanding of communities facing similar circumstances as flint.