'Don't forget to look into the camera!': Peter Watkins' approach to acting with facts

John R. Cook

doi:10.1386/sdf.4.3.227_1

'Don't forget to look into the camera!': Peter Watkins' approach to acting with facts

John R. Cook

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Abstract

This article will examine the work of radical docudrama director, Peter Watkins (director, Culloden and The War Game). In many ways, Watkins is the father of modern docudrama. Working at the BBC in the early to mid 1960s, he pioneered the concept of dramatised productions shot in a documentary vérité style which would prove hugely influential to a generation of docudrama makers such as Ken Loach.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227-240
Number of pages	14
Journal	Studies in Documentary Film
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/sdf.4.3.227_1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

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non-professional actors
documentary film
drama
Peter Watkins

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An Englishman abroad: evening land and the struggles of Peter Watkins within Scandinavian film culture of the 1970s
Cook, J. R., 1 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 14, 2, p. 127-141 15 p.
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Book Review: Utopian television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond cinema edited by Michael Cramer Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Cook, J. R., 15 Aug 2019, In: Visual Studies. p. 1-2 2 p.
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'Don't forget to look into the camera!': Peter Watkins' approach to acting with facts

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An Englishman abroad: evening land and the struggles of Peter Watkins within Scandinavian film culture of the 1970s

Book Review: Utopian television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond cinema edited by Michael Cramer Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017

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