Abstract
Abstract The introduction gives an overview of the questions and themes contained in the book. It shows how the origins of most footage in a documentary remain ambiguous to the viewer, which allows documentaries to produce narrative and emotional experiences that are fundamentally fictional. It compares documentaries to fiction films and identifies several similarities, including how actors and documentary subjects both tend to be chosen for their ability to appear “natural” in front of a camera. Exploring the question of a working definition of documentary, it emphasizes how difficult it is to police the boundaries of the genre and emphasizes the difficulties that arise when trying to make strict rules about what is and is not a documentary. The chapter ends by showing the disconnect between documentary practitioners and audiences and argues that the purpose of book is to build a bridge between these worlds and give readers insights into how to interpret what they see and hear in a documentary.
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