Questionable Intent: Documentary Cinema and the Authorial Fallacy

Randolph Lewis

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AbstractThis article examines the relationship between intention and meaning in documentary cinema. It argues that audience assumptions about the film-maker's intentions have limited the interpretation of documentary more than any other category of film. Evidence is drawn from Luis Bunuel's Land with Bread (1932), Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will (1934), Michael Moore's Roger and Me (1989) and Arlene Bowman's Navajo Talking Picture (1986).

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