The ‘unreel’ in Woody Allen’s Zelig
L. Nas
Literator · 1992
doi:10.4102/lit.v13i3.775 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
By presenting Zelig (1983) in the form of a historical documentary using archival film footage, film - director Woody Allen breaks down the conventional distinction between documentary and fiction film. Through metacinematic self-consciousness Zelig hybridly 'chameleonizes’ recorded historical 'truth' exposing this truth to be ‘unreal’: it explodes the notion of the cinematic ‘real’, turning it into the ‘unreel’.
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