The Other Side of AIDS and Salesman, are which type of genre?
Salesman (1969 film) Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary film about door-to-door Bible salesmen, directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin.
Mashal (allegory) A Mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory, called a "nimshal". "Mashal" is used also to designate other forms in rhetoric, such as the fable and apothegm. Talmudist Daniel Boyarin has recently defined משל as a process of "exemplification," seeing it as the "sine qua non" of Talmudic hermeneutics (Boyarin 2003: 93). He quotes "Song of Songs Rabba": "until Solomon invented the משל, no one could understand Torah at all." The phenomenon has been compared to the more recent phenomenon of sampling in modern popular music, especially hip-hop (Levy 2010).