1. ‘Documentaries should never be trusted’.
How important to the spectator is the sense that they should
trust the documentary film maker?
• Spurlock taking on the role of “social actor”
WHAT impact does this have on the spectator?
• Closing statement – Is this our ‘port of entry to
the political’ (Performative - Nichols – 2001)?
• Illustrative facts and diagrams – Trustworthy?
• Spurlock phoning Jim Cantulupo –
What position (Stuart Hall – 1980)
are the spectator put in?
• Family unable to pledge their
allegiance to the Flag – Yet they
can pledge their allegiance to
McDonalds
• Non-diegetic music “I hope you got
fat!” – Elements of the
Performative as well.
• Day 26 – Desecration of the flag –
‘Signifies’ (De Saussure) what?
Scene – Chapter 15
Scene – Chapter 14
