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By : ccagle November 19, 2020

The Burden of Words

When the spoken exposition takes the upper hand.

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By : ccagle February 19, 2020November 19, 2019

Vox Populi

How does documentary figure public opinion?

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By : ccagle January 19, 2020November 25, 2019

Nontheatrical Film

The essay film’s distinct relation to the archive.

By : ccagle January 17, 2020January 18, 2020

20 Festival Documentaries of the Decade (VOD edition)

My book has the (semi)arbitrary cutoff of 2010-2019, so it seems fitting to do a couple of decade-in-review lists of some of my favorite festival documentaries. It’s not a best-of exactly, but a round of up films that moved me and impressed me on first viewing and stuck with me. One challenge of my topic

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By : ccagle January 12, 2020November 19, 2019

Character and Author

Inserting the filmmaker into the character-driven film.

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By : ccagle January 5, 2020November 19, 2019

Personal-Investigative Films

A durable formula.

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By : ccagle December 17, 2019November 19, 2019

The Humanist Portrait

What does it mean for a documentary to be humanist?

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By : ccagle December 10, 2019November 19, 2019

The Crusader

How the stand-in figure can work.

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By : ccagle December 3, 2019November 19, 2019

The Anonymous Testimonial

The festival film’s solution for testimony from unidentified subjects.

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By : ccagle November 26, 2019November 19, 2019

Landscape as Problem

Why don’t more documentaries use landscape like fiction films?

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By : ccagle November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Cine-Roman

Reviving the cine-roman format.

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By : ccagle November 11, 2019November 10, 2019

The Multi-Protagonist Form

A common variation on the character-driven doc

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By : ccagle November 9, 2019

Exile Cinema

Thinking through Naficy’s model for documentary.

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By : ccagle November 8, 2019

The Non-Expository Prologue

Thinking about how prologues can function differently.

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By : ccagle November 4, 2019

Essay Film as Meta-History

More hybridization of the poetic and essay film genres.

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