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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Clear Notes in the Concert
Carla’s Song: the rhetoric of the unplanned shot
2 What to do with a Camera
Up the Junction: addressing the audience
Cathy Come Home: fictional journalism
Poor Cow: the limitations of digression
3 Sympathetic Observation
Kes: implying shared experiences
4 The Experience of History
The Big Flame: a heady fantasy of revolution92 The Rank and File:
fusing the individual and the collective
Days of Hope: a tendency towards personalisation
5 Significance and Objectivity
The Gamekeeper: the documentary look
Looks and Smiles: hanging about for people to bare their souls
Talking about work: a response to the 1980s
6 Cutting to the Core of What’s Happening
Raining Stones: embedding characters in contexts
Ladybird Ladybird: a melodrama of protest
Land and Freedom: seeing with your own eyes
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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