The right to play oneself
Subtitle: looking back on documentary film
By: Thomas Waugh
Series: Visible evidence -- v. 23
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780816645862; 9780816645879
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes; title: Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984); title: Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975); title: Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American Popular Front (1990); title: Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990); title: Beyond Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977); title: Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08); title: Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984); title: Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period (1997); title: "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990); title: Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).