The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film

by Thomas Waugh and Professor Thomas Waugh

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 "committed" documentary from the 19 0s, reflects the book's theme of the political potential of documentary for representing the democratic performance of citizens and artists.
Waugh analyzes an eclectic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645876
• ISBN13: 9780816645879
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"