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Postclassical Nonfiction: Narration in the Contemporary Documentary
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2012
- pp. 45-65
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0115
- Article
- Additional Information
This article examines contemporary mainstream documentaries for the patterns through which they create meaning and argument. Rather than exhibiting hybridity, these films rely on postclassical narration in their combination of traditional formal documentary form with direct cinema's open argumentation.