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date: 23 May 2025

found footage (found footage film) 

Source:
A Dictionary of Film Studies
Author(s):

Annette Kuhn,

Guy Westwell

1. Pre‐existing film footage appropriated by a filmmaker and used in a way that was not originally intended.2. A film comprised, in whole or part, of found footage. The term calls on the idea of a ‘found object’, or ... ...

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