Introduction to Quoting and Citing films How to

Introduction to Quoting and Citing films How to quote and cite Speakers in Robert Kenner’s Documentary Film, Food Inc.

Food Inc. is streamed in UBC Library’s Reserves • https: //courses. library. ubc. ca/i. z. Qgk. Qx • Click on the link, which goes to the Library Course Reserves page. • Click on Food Inc. , which takes you to a page with a button: View item • Click on the button to go to the Library login page and login. • Once at the film site, click on English Audio with English subtitles.

How to locate useful information in the film • When the film begins, Michael Pollan speaks in a “voice over”. • Pollan explains that producers in the food industry employ false advertising to mask the way food is processed. • Pollan states: “‘But the image that’s used to sell food, it is still the image of agrarian America. ’” • Watch the time bar to see when Pollan provides that information. • Pollan begins speaking at 00: 52 and completes that idea at 01: 00

How to quote and cite speakers in Food Inc. • Select only the part of Pollan’s statement that is useful. • Set up the quote with analysis: Pollan explains that food producers hide their industrialized methods through false advertising. • He asserts that the image that producers use “‘to sell food […] is still the image of agrarian America’” (qtd. in Kenner 00: 52 – 01: 00).

Introducing the speakers in the film Food Inc. • Introduce the speakers by full names to create a context for the quote, place their exact words in quotation marks “‘exact words’” and cite with (qtd. in Kenner 00: 00) OR (qtd. in Kenner 00: 00 – 00: 00). Example of an indirect quote to quote speaker Carole Morison. Poultry farmer Carole Morison explains that broiler growers regularly put “‘antibiotics […] into the feed’” and as a result, “‘the bacteria builds up a resistance, so antibiotics aren’t working any more’” (qtd. in Kenner 14: 12 – 14: 22).

Models in the Documentation Booklet • PAGE 29: Scenario #9: Quoting and Citing Authors (or Speakers) in Films Example 39: Quoting speakers in a film. Michael Pollan asserts that humans evolved to crave foods high in sugar, salt, and fat, which “‘are rare in nature, ’” and that food producers use this knowledge to “‘engineer’” products that taste good to promote excessive consumption and, thus, increase their sales and their profits (qtd. in Kenner 00: 60: 10).