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Note: the parenthesis (dardenne-brothers.com) refers to an unofficial website about

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne that was available at http://www.dardenne-brothers.com/
articles/index.html. However, at the time of this book’s completion, the site was no
longer available. References to items found on the site bear no page numbers.

Note: interviews on commercially available DVDs are included in this list.

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 Baronian, Marie-Aude (2008) ‘“La Caméra à la nuque” ou esthétique et politique dans le cinéma
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 Corner, John (1996) The Art of Record: A Critical Introduction to Documentary. Manchester: Manchester
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 Edelmann, Pascal (2007) ‘An Opportunity to Resist: An Interview with the Dardenne Brothers’, in
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 Klawans, Stuart (2006) ‘The Wild Child’. Online. Nation, 10 April. Available at http://www.
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