In our era of 'fake news', Stella Bruzzi examines the dynamism that results from reusing and reconfiguring raw documentary data (documents, archive, news etc.) in creative ways.

Stella Bruzzi is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London (UCL) and Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely in the areas of documentary, costume and masculinity in Hollywood. Her publications include Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, New Documentary and Men's Cinema. Approximation is an output from a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

Introduction

Chapter One: Archive and the power of actuality

Chapter Two: '9/11' as 'Not 9/11': United 93 and Man on Wire

Chapter Three: Mad Men and the incidental events of the 1960s

Chapter Four: Documentary and the law: true crime and observation

Chapter Five: Political mimicry: from mimesis to alternate history

Chapter Six: Documentary re-enactment: the 'model' approximation