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The Right to Play Oneself : Looking Back on Documentary Film /
"The Right to Play Oneself" collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "committed" documenta...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984)
- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975)
- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American popular front (1990)
- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990)
- Beyond Verite : Emile de Antonio (1977; 2008)
- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-2008)
- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984)
- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-Stonewall period (1997)
- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990)
- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).