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Not everyone has a million-dollar budget. Documentaries like American Movie (1999) remain the gold standard for showing the desperate, hilarious, and heartbreaking effort it takes to make a micro-budget horror film in rural Wisconsin. It is a portrait of obsession that rivals Moby Dick .

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The paper analyzes how the entertainment industry uses documentaries to manage public perception during crises. Caldwell looks at how studios release documentaries about "troubled productions" (movies that went over budget or had on-set fights). By releasing their own documentary, the studio can spin the disaster as a "passionate artistic struggle," turning a negative news story into a marketing asset.