He began to take a documentary approach in both his novels and dramas.
My goal was not to create the grainy YouTube videos but attempt a more documentary approach.
The makers of "Surprise Attack on America" had taken what at first seemed to be a more documentary approach.
As a novelist, Ha Jin brings a cool, spare documentary approach to this rich trove of material.
Carefully composed and sharply detailed, they are salient examples of the straight documentary approach with which Siskind began his career.
"In terms of the services and prayer meetings, it was very realistic, more or less a documentary approach," he said.
Her Jesus alienates, unless you have already bought into the personality cult such documentary approaches appeal to, when every detail is welcomed like titbits in a celebrity magazine.
They cheered when workers unearthed the first Atari artifact of the day, a joystick, and they cheered more loudly when Zak Penn, who is directing Microsoft's documentary, approached the crowd, held up an E.T. cartridge, and announced, "We found something".
The timing of the reissue of "Grey Gardens" is apt, coming, as it does, on the heels of the release of a superb new documentary, "Approaching the Elephant," by Amanda Rose Wilder, that confronts many of the same questions of observation and participation, but resolves them differently.
For her documentary "Approaching the Elephant" (Amazon), from 2014, the director Amanda Rose Wilder spent a year among the students and teachers in a newly founded New Jersey free school, an elementary school in which neither curriculum nor classes are predetermined or mandatory and the educational activities change day to day on the basis of students' interests and teachers' perceptions.
Avoiding talking heads spewing mumbo jumbo, Stephanie Black's documentary approaches globalization by going directly to Jamaican farmers and factory workers overwhelmed by hard-nosed lending organizations like the International Monetary Fund and policies that amount to economic Darwinism exercised by the United States and multinational corporations.
