Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filming.

Abstract

^ What is the boundary between society's right to know and the individual's right to be free of humiliation, shame, and indignity? The question becomes an extremely important one as we train students in the techniques of documentary only to unleash them and their cameras on an unsuspecting public. In this article, Calvin Pryluck, associate professor of Radio Television-Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explores the ethical dimensions of documentary filmmaking.