The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film by Thomas Waugh

The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film

Thomas Waugh

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The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "comm...

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