'Just Act Naturally': A Poetics of Documentary Performance

This dissertation formulates a poetics of performance in nonfiction film and television. Building on a large body of converging research that calls for an acknowledgment of: the constructedness of documentary texts; the performative nature of identity; and the significance of screen performance, I i...

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Main Author: Marquis, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Keil, Charlie
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32014