The Right to Play Oneself

‘Documentary film, in everyday commonsense parlance, implies the absence of elements of performance, acting, staging, directing, etc., criteria which presumably distinguish the documentary form from the narrative fiction film.’

  • Thomas Waugh, The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film 2011. Discuss the possibilities and limitations of this definition of documentary with reference to 'The Act of Killing' (Joshua Oppenheimer)

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