Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality

by Stella Bruzzi

Book Overview

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.

Through a series of individual case studies, this book offers an innovative framework for understanding how, in our century, film and media texts frequently represent reality and negotiate the instabilities of 'truth' by 'approximating' factual events rather than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415688353
• ISBN13: 9780415688352
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages