Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ground rules; The event: archive and newsreel; Narration: the film and its voice; The legacy of direct cinema; New British observational documentary: 'docusoaps'; Documentary journeys: Shoah, London; Performance; The president and the image: Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton; The performative documentary: Barker, Dineen, Broomfield; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Bruzzi relates contemporary cinema to the documentary tradition, exploring questions of authorship, spectatorship and 'truth' in the context of issues of race, gender and performance.