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Pyle, Forest Solmon, Joanna Browne 2026-03-18T22:31:48Z 2000 https://hdl.handle.net/1794/32435 60 pages. The medium of film presents us with an imitation-reality locked within an invisible narrative structure. The effects of this all-pervasive narrative structure on our daily lives, on how we construct ourselves and those around us, changes both with time and with technology. One way in which such effects make themselves manifest is in films in which a character plays the role of film-maker; in such films the camera becomes the character’s method for negotiating between the real world and the expected and constructed realities of film narrative. I look at three such films: Dziga Vertov’s 1929 Russian film The Man with the Movie Camera, Jim McBride’s 1967 American film David Holzman’s Diary, and Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick’s 1999 American film The Blair Witch Project. en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US UO theses and dissertations are provided for research and educational purposes and may be under copyright by the author or the author’s heirs. Please contact scholars@uoregon.edu with any questions or comments. In your email, be sure to include the URL and title of the specific items that you are inquiring about. Fictional film-makers Imitation-reality Film Film narrative Falling Into Form: The Documentary Failures of Fictional Film-Makers Dissertation or thesisopen.access