Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.