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.

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• IntroductionChapter One: Archive and the power of actualityChapter Two: ‘9/11’ as ‘Not 9/11’: United 93 and Man on WireChapter Three: Mad Men and the incidental events of the 1960sChapter Four: Documentary and the law: true crime and observationChapter Five: Political mimicry: from mimesis to alternate historyChapter Six: Documentary re-enactment: the ‘model’ approximation

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.

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• IntroductionChapter One: Archive and the power of actualityChapter Two: ‘9/11’ as ‘Not 9/11’: United 93 and Man on WireChapter Three: Mad Men and the incidental events of the 1960sChapter Four: Documentary and the law: true crime and observationChapter Five: Political mimicry: from mimesis to alternate historyChapter Six: Documentary re-enactment: the ‘model’ approximation