Towards this end, let’s investigate a documentary convention that could distort what’s being documented:
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Author: Steven Strauss
Yes, I Read Books
Is Sally Rooney the literary Nanfu Wang??
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In the Same Life
Nanfu Wang’s body of work navigates the documentary dilemma addressed yesterday:
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Searching for a Personal Frame
Searching for Mr. Rugoff runs into a dilemma that besets many documentaries:
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Notes on a Flag Day
I hold season tickets to Sean Penn’s career.
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Career Tickets
I’m a season-ticket holder to the careers of artists.
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Notes on a Cryptozoo
Jonesing for a hand-drawn throwback?
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Based
Why are “based on a true story” tags placed at the beginning of movies instead of at the end?
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The Wages of Reel
Anything on screen (or stage. or the page. or a canvas. or [insert object upon which art resides here]) is fair game to interpret.
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That and This Are Entertainment
Does the deus ex machina romance between Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in 1953’s The Band Wagon feel unconvincingly tacked-on to anyone else?!
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