What exactly do you mean by the "distinction between practitioners and theorists"? Like many people around me, I am engaged in critical thinking about documentaries AND I make documentaries. Indeed, contemporary docuemtary filmmaking has been quite influenced by theory and vice versa ( "experimental" documentaries, films and videos that blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the valorizing a more personal narrative over the by now old- fashioned "voice of God" narrator, so-called "self-reflexivity") often implicitly or explicitly draw on deconstructionist discourses a identity politics, etc. Caitlin Manning ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]