Here are sections from your group responses from last night. Please feel free to add to what your group said in the comments and /or respond to what other groups have said. This would count for your blogging for next week!

Group 1 dealing with the portrayal of the miners wrote this: “The movie was more about social issues than personal issues between the men. Koppel is showing the miners’ determination to change the future.”

Group 2 dealing with the portrayal of women wrote this: “Some of the women were strong willed and brave. They pushed the men to keep striking when it seemed like they had given up. They pumped energy back into the men.”

Group 3 dealing with the film’s Rhetoric (logos, ethos, pathos) wrote this: Pathos: The folk music, the shooting scene, the funeral scene and the explosion. Logos: The doctor about black lung. Ethos: the mine workers themselves. The film used pathos more than the others.

Group 5 dealing with the film’s ethics wrote this: The director is letting the people speak for themselves; she isn’t speaking for them. She had informed consent and filmed them in their natural state. The funeral scene seemed questionable because of the emotional states.

Group 6 dealing with the role of the filmmaker wrote this: “She’s more of a participant than Frederick Wiseman but overall she’s more of an observer-participant”