1st Edition
Approximation Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality
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
Biography
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.
