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Is a documentary that follows a person around always observational? What makes a documentary reflexive and why so few filmmakers go there How to categorize a hybrid documentary that mixes interviews with staged fiction Why does the way a documentary is shot reveal its genre? Does genre decide whether a documentary gets a theatrical release? The performative documentary and the filmmaker who steps in front of the camera Expository documentaries and the narration that defines them How do you tell an observational documentary from a participatory one? Poetic documentaries explain nothing — how do you know that is the point? Bill Nichols' six modes of documentary and how to spot each one Why "objective documentary" is a contradiction critics keep pointing out Direct cinema vs cinema verite: what actually separated the two movements? Is voice-of-god narration a manipulation tactic or just a style? Why do critics insist every documentary has a point of view no matter how neutral it looks? Staging a scene for the camera — where is the line between documentary and fiction?

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