The documentary film book

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Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary. Part I: Documentary values. The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film / Bill Nichols --'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence / Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject / Stella Bruzzi --On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore / Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence / Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary / Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form / Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences / Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised / Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics / Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future / John Corner. Part II: Documentary Paradigms. Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North / Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement / Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board / Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand / Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State / Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahanan -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA / Dave Saunders --Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov / Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s-50s / Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition / Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited / Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions / Craig Hight. Part III: Documentary Horizons. Eastwards / Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N. / Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil / Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada / Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday -- Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition / Susanna Helke. Part IV: Documentary Voices. First-Person Political / Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them / Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film / Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity / Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment / Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times? / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. Part V: Documentary Disciplines. Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film / Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary / Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television / Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary / Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art / Michael Renov. Part VI: Documentary Futures. Documentary as Open Space / Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online / John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto' / Peter Wintonick -- Afterword: The Unchanging Question / Brian Winston

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