quasidocumentary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From quasi- + documentary.
Adjective
[edit]quasidocumentary (not comparable)
- Somewhat or partially documentary.
- 2008 March 31, Manohla Dargis, “Voice, Eyes and Camera of Katrina Survivors”, in New York Times[1]:
- Shot in the familiar quasidocumentary, tag-along style, “Foster Child” at first seems too narrowly focused on Thelma’s personal tribulations but eventually throws open a window onto a world in which the only available remedy to the combination of poverty and religion rests in the bank accounts of childless foreigners.