Right to Play Oneself : Looking Back on Documentary Film, Paperback by Waugh, Thomas, ISBN 0816645876, ISBN-13 9780816645879, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Originally written between 1974 and 2008, these ten essays by Waugh (film studies, Concordia U., Canada) represent the evolution of his thinking on documentary film over the past few decades. Focusing on the text of the documentary (that is, what is on the screen), the essays seek to push the canon beyond the Global North and also demonstrate an attachment to the potential of documentary film to articulate left and queer identity politics. Among the directors discussed are Dziga Vertov, Emile de Antonio, Barbara Hammer, Rosa von Praunheim, and Anand Patwardhan. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()