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‘The Thin Blue Line’ as Detective Film

‘The Thin Blue Line’ as Detective Film

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Christopher Campbell
Mar 26, 2015
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The following essay was written in December 2010 for a Master’s film studies class at NYU and was originally titled “The Documentary Detective Film: Genre and Focalization as Means to Solve a True Crime in Errol Morris’ The Thin Blue Line.” I am publishing the essay as a tie-in to the film’s new Criterion Collection release.

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