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Our man in the archive
- Author(s):
- William Farrell (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Subject(s):
- Archives, Television, Documentary films--Production and direction, Documentary films--Authorship, History of contemporary events
- Item Type:
- Blog Post
- Tag(s):
- Adam Curtis, bbc, television archives, history on television, 20th century history, Documentary filmmaking, Contemporary history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8zga-kw28
- Abstract:
- A response to criticism of Adam Curtis' documentary film Bitter Lake about the war in Afghanistan. I argue that Curtis is a practitioner of 'thick description' and is pioneering a new form of history through the use of audio-visual archives.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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