{"id":984,"date":"2004-08-10T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/fahrenheit-911-and-the-documentary-tradition\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:27:04","slug":"fahrenheit-911-and-the-documentary-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/fahrenheit-911-and-the-documentary-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 9\/11 and the documentary tradition."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Louis Menand in the New Yorker has <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?critics\/040809crat_atlarge\">a really good piece<\/a> addressing the &quot;accusations&quot; that Michael Moore abuses the &quot;documentary tradition&quot; with the way that he shoots his films (inserting himself and his opinions into the middle of them).  Essentially, people who make this accusation don&#8217;t actually understand what the &quot;documentary tradition&quot; is.  In going through the actual history of the documentary film, in all of its fakery, reinactment and staging, Menard posits that &quot;one thing that cannot be said about &#8216;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8217; is that it is an outlaw from the documentary tradition.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Menand in the New Yorker has a really good piece addressing the &quot;accusations&quot; that Michael Moore abuses the &quot;documentary tradition&quot; with the way that he shoots his films (inserting himself and his opinions into the middle of them). Essentially, people who make this accusation don&#8217;t actually understand what the &quot;documentary tradition&quot; is. In going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15,17],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}