"Within this economy of tourism, viewing images of the Other becomes a routine and inherently politicized practice of consumption; a practice too often shared by documentary film in its "we bring the world to you" operation and rhetoric. This construction of other cultures as objects of such impact, usually produces the reconstitution of the foreign or the Other as "native" or as "folkloric"...."
Kotz. "Striptease East and West: Sexual Representation in Documentary Film", p3.
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