Cynthia Fuchs is director of Film & Media Studies and Associate Professor of English, Film & Video Studies, African and African American Studies, Sport & American Culture, at George Mason University.
Features
Monday, September 12 2011
Documenting Memories of 9/11
The many documentaries on 9/11 show that this is what the day has been and remains, history conveyed by images, history reconfigured to shape what comes after, history that is perpetual.
Friday, January 14 2011
The Best Documentaries of 2010
A remarkable number of documentaries challenged basic assumptions about structure and representation, faith and truth.
Friday, November 19 2010
Everything Gets Pulled into Question: Interview with Chico Colvard
Filmmaker Chico Colvard talks about his memories, his award-winning documentary (Family Affair) -- opening this Friday at the Quad -- and the whiteness of the independent film community.
Friday, May 7 2010
Pal, You Better Follow the Story or You're Cooked, Says Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney says, "The reason I hate the whole bad apple thing is because it allows us as human beings to completely disengage, to say, 'I'd never do anything bad, because I'm good.'"
Friday, March 5 2010
"They're All One Guy to Me": Interview with Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua's new film, Brooklyn's Finest, is about men under pressure, men whose choices range between "righter and wronger", as on character outs it.
Reviews
Wednesday, February 8 2012
'Miners' Hymns': Labor and Poetry
Beautifully and evocatively, Bill Morrison's film traces the changes of fortune for the mines and miners, the industry and communities of Northern England.
Tuesday, February 7 2012
'Unfinished Spaces' Revisits Cuba's Schools of Art
The journey in Unfinished Spaces begins with reconsidering the hopes and confusions of Cuba just after the Revolution, the politics and the struggles that go on to this day.
Monday, February 6 2012
'Our School' Shows Effects of Poverty and Prejudice
Our School doesn't press its case -- that racism and inequality pervade the lives of Roma ("Gypsy") children in a small Romanian town -- as much as it lets it unfold.
Saturday, February 4 2012
'Windfall' Illustrates a Town Divided
Windfall's long panning shots of the beautiful hills of Meredith, in the Catskill region of New York, show what residents want to preserve.
Friday, February 3 2012
'Big Miracle': TV Saves the Whales
The context for the whales' plight is conveyed in Big Miracle by TV, glimpsed in the backgrounds of scenes where people are talking about... TV.
Blogs
Thursday, January 26 2012
Doc Series 'Have You Heard From Johannesburg' Concludes on PBS, 26 January
Monday, January 23 2012
'Space Coast' at The DocYard in Boston on 23 January
The DocYard in Boston showcases "what is innovative, interesting, and inspiring in documentary." Space Coast is all of that.




































