Postclassical Nonfiction: Narration in the Contemporary Documentary

Chris Cagle

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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.

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