The right to play oneself looking back on documentary film /

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Main Author: Waugh, Thomas, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Visible evidence ; v. 23.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes
  • 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 Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977)
  • Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08)
  • 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).