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Documentary Truth Claim

A Documentary Truth Claim is a representational assertion within a documentary text that posits a specific correspondence between the mediated content and historical reality, thereby functioning as a rhetorical commitment to factual accuracy and epistemological authenticity.

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8

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2017–2026

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Publications

22

Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary

Linda Williams · Film Quarterly · 1993 · 224 citations

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Claiming the real: the Griersonian documentary and its legitimations

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 175 citations

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Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 1 Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research

Jennifer Platt · The Sociological Review · 1981 · 114 citations

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Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

Eric Heyne, Barbara Foley · The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association · 1987 · 104 citations · Full text

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Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction

Carl Plantinga, Barbara Foley · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1987 · 75 citations

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Authors

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  1. BF
    Barbara Foley

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    3 publications · 253 citations

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  2. JP
    Jennifer Platt

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 134 citations

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  3. CP
    Carl Plantinga

    Hollins University, United States

    1 publications · 75 citations

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  4. JE
    John Ellis

    Washington State University, United States

    1 publications · 28 citations

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  5. LW
    Linda Williams

    University of South Florida, United States

    1 publications · 224 citations

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Institutions

8

  1. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    134 citations

  2. Netherlands Defence Academy

    Breda, Netherlands

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    40 citations

  3. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  4. Royal Holloway University of London

    Egham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  5. Aalto University

    Espoo, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  6. Tilburg University

    Tilburg, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  7. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  8. Institute of Contemporary Art

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

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Venues

  1. Film Quarterly

    3 publications · 301 citations

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  2. Studies in Documentary Film

    SDF · 3 publications · 67 citations

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  3. The Sociological Review

    2 publications · 134 citations

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  4. Cultural Studies

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  5. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 203 citations

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