Approximation - Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Archive and the power of actuality
Chapter Two: ‘9/11’ as ‘Not 9/11’: United 93 and Man on Wire
Chapter Three: Mad Men and the incidental events of the 1960s
Chapter Four: Documentary and the law: true crime and observation
Chapter Five: Political mimicry: from mimesis to alternate history
Chapter Six: Documentary re-enactment: the ‘model’ approximation

About the author

Stella Bruzzi is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London (UCL) and Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely in the areas of documentary, costume and masculinity in Hollywood. Her publications include Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, New Documentary and Men’s Cinema. Approximation is an output from a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

Summary

In our era of ‘fake news’, Stella Bruzzi examines the dynamism that results from reusing and reconfiguring raw documentary data (documents, archive, news etc.) in creative ways.

Product details

• Authors: Stella Bruzzi, Stella (University of Warwick Bruzzi, Bruzzi Stella
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2020
• EAN: 9780415688321
• ISBN: 978-0-415-68832-1
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films