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Travelogue (2017)
Forty Years Filming the World
by Doug Jones
Publisher: International Travel Films Publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (2017)
Dir. Ian Aitken
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (2005)
3-Volume Set
Dir. Ian Aitken
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
André Bazin on Documentary (2026)
Cinema's Urge to Explore
Dir. André Bazin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects (2025)
Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Nonfiction
by Adam Vaughan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Ethics of Documentary Film (2025)
Dir. Agnieszka Piotrowska
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Stories Make the World (2025)
Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
by Stephen Most
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Discourses of Migration in Documentary Film (2022)
Translating the Real to the Reel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Female Gaze in Documentary Film (2022)
An International Perspective
by Lisa French
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
What Is Non-fiction Cinema? (2022)
On the Very Idea of Motion Picture Communication
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Kill the Documentary (2022)
A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Beyond Bias (2021)
Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria
by Scott Krzych
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Story Movements (2020)
How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Manifestations of Political Power Structures in Documentary Film (2020)
by Dror Dayan
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Genre > Documentary
New Nonfiction Film (2020)
Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory
by Dara Waldron
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening Reality (2020)
How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America
by Jon Wilkman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Geo-Doc (2020)
Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change
by Mark Terry
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Beyond observation (2020)
A history of authorship in ethnographic film
by Paul Henley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Making of… Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary (2019)
by Jan Cronin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Across Platforms (2019)
Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Act of Documenting (2017)
Documentary Film in the 21st Century
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Philosophy of Documentary Film (2016)
Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth
Dir. David LaRocca
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Ecodocumentaries (2016)
Critical Essays
Dir. Rayson K. Alex and S. Susan Deborah
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Right to Play Oneself (2011)
Looking Back on Documentary Film
by Thomas Waugh
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Recording Reality, Desiring the Real (2011)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Realer Than Reel (2006)
Global Directions in Documentary
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Docufictions (2005)
Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking
Dir. Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Candid Eyes (2003)
Essays on Canadian Documentaries
Dir. Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
For Documentary (1999)
Twelve Essays
by Dai Vaughan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Art of Record (1996)
A Critical Introduction
by John Corner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Beyond Document (1996)
Essays on Nonfiction Film
Dir. Charles Warren
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
In Fading Light (2020)
The Films of the Amber Collective
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Great Sports Documentaries (2017)
100+ Award Winning Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media (2026)
Relational Practice and (De)Stabilized Reception
Dir. Tobias Conradi, Florian Krautkrämer and Vanessa Zallot
Publisher: transcript publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Staging Nuremberg (2026)
How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Film (2026)
A Very Short Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror (2026)
Publisher: Anthem Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide (2026)
by Julian Koch
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Pipeline Cinema (2025)
The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq
by Mona Damluji
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary (2025)
Dir. Joshua Glick and Patricia Aufderheide
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Pop Documentary Since 1980 (2025)
Aesthetics, Performance, Creativity
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Interactive Documentary Form (2025)
Aesthetics, Practice and Research
Publisher: transcript publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Audit (2025)
Listening and the Limits of Accountability
by Pooja Rangan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film and Television, Volume 1 (2025)
Ernest Shackleton
by John Atkins
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film and Television, Volume 2 (2025)
Scott and Amundsen
by John Atkins
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Nomadic Cinema (2025)
A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Women and Global Documentary (2025)
Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century
Dir. Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Between Reality and Documentary (2025)
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde (2025)
Radical Documentary in the 1960s
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film (2025)
Dir. Fernando Canet
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Film and Radical Psychiatry (2024)
by Des O'Rawe
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Public Information Films (2024)
British Government Film Units, 1930-52
by Alan Harding
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe (2024)
Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space
by Lucie Cesálková, Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val and Paolo Villa
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film (2024)
Up Close Behind the Mask
by Sara Martín
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Filming Death (2024)
End-of-Life Documentary Cinema
by Outi Hakola
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens (2024)
Docu-mania
by Phoebe Hart
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond (2023)
Dir. Clemens Gnther and Matthias Schwartz
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution (2023)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Movies on a Mission (2023)
American Protestants and the Foreign Missionary Film, 1906–1956
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Medium Seen Otherwise (2023)
Photography in Documentary Film
by Roger Hallas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Political Camerawork (2023)
Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma
by D. Andy Rice
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
How Documentaries Went Mainstream (2023)
A History, 1960-2022
by Nora Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2023)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Mapping the Rockumentary (2023)
Images of Sound and Fury
Dir. Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Constructions of the Real (2023)
Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory
Dir. Christine Rogers, Kim Munro and Liz Burke
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening Social Justice (2023)
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
How Documentaries Work (2023)
by Jacob Bricca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary in the Age of COVID (2023)
Dir. Dafydd Sills-Jones and Pietari Kääpä
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Animating Truth (2022)
Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century
by Nea Ehrlich
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Decolonizing Ear (2022)
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South (2022)
by Christopher L. Ballengee, Andre Bagoo, Miki Brunou and Lucas Izquierdo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Art of the Observer (2022)
A Personal View of Documentary
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa (2022)
Dir. Viola Shafik
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics (2022)
French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Men, War and Film (2022)
The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
by Steve Hawley
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening Nature and Nation (2022)
The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Radioactive Documentary (2022)
Filming the Nuclear Environment after the Cold War
by Helen Hughes
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Interactive Documentary (2022)
Decolonizing Practice-Based Research
Dir. Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary's Expanded Fields (2022)
New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary
by Jihoon Kim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Filming History from Below (2022)
Microhistorical Documentaries
by Efrén Cuevas
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video (2021)
Dir. Phillip Vannini
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Labour in a Single Shot (2021)
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project
Dir. Roy Grundmann, Peter Schwartz and Gregory Williams
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Ecology Documentaries (2021)
Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Telling Migrntt Stories (2021)
Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film
Dir. Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Cinema on the Front Line (2021)
British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Radical Documentary and Global Crises (2021)
Militant Evidence in the Digital Age
by Ryan Watson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Philosophical History of Documentary (2021)
1895-1959
by Dan Geva
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Interactive Documentary (2021)
Theory and Debate
by Kate Nash
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Reclaiming Popular Documentary (2021)
by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Companion to Documentary Film History (2021)
Dir. Joshua Malitsky
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Genre > Documentary
No Power Without an Image (2020)
Icons Between Photography and Film
by Libby Saxton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm (2020)
Cinema, Television, and the Archive
by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick and Mark Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film (2020)
Dir. Deane Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Approximation (2020)
Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Perpetrator Cinema (2020)
Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
by Raya Morag
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Possible South (2020)
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Open Space New Media Documentary (2019)
A Toolkit for Theory and Practice
by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Helen De Michiel
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS (2019)
Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive
Dir. Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Resistance (2019)
Social Change and Participatory Media
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary, Performance and Risk (2019)
by James Lyons
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Subject to Reality (2019)
Women and Documentary Film
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Remaking Holocaust Memory (2019)
Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Bad Film Histories (2019)
Ethnography and the Early Archive
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (2019)
Dir. Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian (2019)
A Prolegomenon
by Dan Geva
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Drawn from Life (2018)
Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema
Dir. Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Vocal Projections (2018)
Voices in Documentary
Dir. Bella Honess Roe and Maria Pramaggiore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Researching Newsreels (2018)
Local, National and Transnational Case Studies
Dir. Ciara Chambers, Mats Jönsson and Roel Vande Winkel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (2018)
Dir. Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Critical Mass (2018)
Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
by Steven Ungar
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Music Documentary (2018)
Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age (2018)
Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies (2018)
Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image (2018)
Theory, Practice and Aesthetics
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Death, Image, Memory (2017)
The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentary Film
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Regarding Life (2017)
Animals and the Documentary Moving Image
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Immediations (2017)
The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
by Pooja Rangan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Sexography (2017)
Sex Work in Documentary
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Dying in Full Detail (2017)
Mortality and Digital Documentary
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
I-Docs (2017)
The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary
Dir. Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi and Mandy Rose
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Filming for the Future (2017)
The Work of Louis van Gasteren
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Celluloid War Memorials (2016)
The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting the World (2016)
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Dir. Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945 (2016)
Dir. Kornelia Imesch, Sigrid Schade and Samuel Sieber
Publisher: transcript publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Across the World with the Johnsons (2016)
Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century
by Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom and Fiona Paisley
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Celluloid Pueblo (2016)
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium (2016)
Dir. María Guadalupe Arenillas and Michael J. Lazzara
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Race (2016)
Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Film
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Speaking Truths with Film (2016)
Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Film Reader (2016)
History, Theory, Criticism
Dir. Jonathan Kahana
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Regarding the Real (2016)
Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts
by Des O'Rawe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Governing Visions of the Real (2016)
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary's Awkward Turn (2015)
Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Contemporary Documentary (2015)
Dir. Daniel Marcus and Selmin Kara
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
All Thoughts Are Equal (2015)
Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Post-1990 Documentary (2015)
Reconfiguring Independence
Dir. Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documents of Utopia (2015)
The Politics of Experimental Documentary
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting Cityscapes (2015)
Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014)
Dir. Holly Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Moving Environments (2014)
Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Green Documentary (2014)
Environmental Documentary in the 21st Century
by Helen Hughes
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting the Documentary (2013)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition
Dir. Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary (2013)
The Cambridge Turn
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Education in the School of Dreams (2013)
Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Music Documentary (2013)
Acid Rock to Electropop
Dir. Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar and Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film (2013)
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Killer Images (2013)
Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence
Dir. Joram ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Watching the World (2012)
Screen Documentary and Audiences
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Cinema of Me (2012)
The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary
Dir. Alisa Lebow
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Playing to the Camera (2012)
Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
by Thomas Cohen
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Useful Cinema (2011)
Dir. Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary (2011)
Witness and Self-Revelation
by John Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
American Documentary Film (2011)
Projecting the Nation
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
No Other Way to Tell It (2011)
Docudrama on Film and Television
by Derek Paget
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Crafting Truth (2010)
Documentary Form and Meaning
by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Taking the Long View (2010)
A Study of Longitudinal Documentary
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Verite in America (2010)
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Challenge for Change (2010)
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, Ezra Winton and Michael Brendan Baker
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Films that Work (2009)
Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media
Dir. Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Reel Nature (2009)
America's Romance with Wildlife on Film
by Gregg Mitman
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Three Documentary Filmmakers (2009)
Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch
Dir. William Rothman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Chavez (2009)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:A Case Study of Politics and the Media
by Rod Stoneman
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Display (2008)
Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Haunted Images (2008)
Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
by Libby Saxton
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Intelligence Work (2008)
The Politics of American Documentary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Migration (2008)
Transcultural Documentary Practice, includes DVD-ROM
Dir. Alan Grossman and Áine O'Brien
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Films of Fact (2008)
A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
by Timothy Boon
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary (2008)
Dir. Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
French Colonial Documentary (2008)
Mythologies of Humanitarianism
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Truth or Dare (2008)
Art and Documentary
Dir. Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Mining the Home Movie (2007)
Excavations in Histories and Memories
by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Direct Cinema (2007)
Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Projecting Canada (2007)
Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board
by Zoe Druick
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documenting Gay Men (2007)
Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Imagining Reality (2006)
the Faber Book of Documentary
Dir. Mark Cousins and Kevin Macdonald
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Selfless Cinema? (2005)
Ethics and French Documentary
by Sarah Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Trauma Cinema (2005)
Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
by Janet Walker
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
New Challenges for Documentary (2005)
Dir. Alan Rosenthal
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Subject of Documentary (2004)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Autobiographical Documentary in America (2002)
by Jim Lane
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Nfb Kids (2002)
Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989
by Brian J. Low
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Faking It (2001)
Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
by Craig Hight and Jane Roscoe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Struggles for Representation (2000)
African American Documentary Film and Video
Dir. Phyllis Rauch Klotman and Janet K. Cutler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Experimental Ethnography (1999)
The Work of Film in the Age of Video
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Film Movement (1998)
An Anthology
Dir. Ian Aitken
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
An Introduction to Television Documentary (1997)
Confronting Reality
by Richard Kilborn and John Izod
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Rhetoric and representation in nonfiction film (1997)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Innovation in Ethnographic Film (1993)
From Innocence to Self-Consciousness, 1955-1985
by Peter Loizos
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary (1993)
A History of the Non-Fiction Film
by Erik Barnouw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Nonfiction Film (1992)
A Critical History
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Film as Ethnography (1992)
Dir. Peter Crawford and David Turton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Representing Reality (1992)
Issues and Concepts in Documentary
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926 1946 (1989)
by Paul Swann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Making a Scene in Documentary Film (2023)
by Maxine Trump
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
India Retold (2023)
Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India
Dir. Rajesh James
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Art of the Documentary (2014)
Fifteen Conversations With Leading Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Producers
Publisher: New Riders
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Development Film in the Americas (2025)
by Molly Geidel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
My University of the World (2023)
Adventures of an International Film & Media Maker
by Neill McKee
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Uncovering Memory (2023)
Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina
by Tanja Sakota
Publisher: Wits University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
On Assignment (2021)
Memoir of a National Geographic Filmmaker
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Diaries (2016)
Working Experiences of a Non-Fiction Filmmaker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Case Studies (2014)
Top Filmmakers and the War Stories Behind Their Greatest Films
by Jeff Swimmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Africa's Last Romantic (2014)
The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom
by Olga Brom Spencer and Glenn Reynolds
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Counter-Archive (2010)
Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
by Paula Amad
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Picturing Casablanca (1994)
Portraits of Power in a Modern City
by Susan Ossman
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Introduction to Documentary (2024)
by Bill Nichols and Jaimie Baron
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Nonfiction Filmmaking for the Screen (2023)
Dir. Charles Dye
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Techniques and Tactics of the Web Documentary (2023)
Dir. Martin Bonnard and Viva Paci
Publisher: CinéMédias
(in English and French)
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking (2020)
by Tony Stark
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Get Close (2019)
Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
How to Film Truth (2018)
The Story of Documentary Film as a Spiritual Journey
by Justin Wells
Publisher: Cascade Books
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Documentary Filmmaker's Roadmap (2018)
A Practical Guide to Planning, Production and Distribution
by Maxine Trump
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Film (2016)
An Insider's Perspective
Dir. Mary Cardaras
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Voice & Vision (2016)
A Creative Approach to Non-Fiction Media Production
by Kelly Anderson and Martin Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Digital Videos (2015)
by Alan Rosenthal and Ned Eckhardt
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentaries (2013)
. . . and How to Make Them
by Andy Glynne
Publisher: Creative Essentials
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary Filmmakers Handbook (2011)
by Ned Eckhardt
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Creative Documentary (2011)
Theory and Practice
by Wilma De Jong, Jerry Rothwell and Erik Knudsen
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Documentary (2006)
The Margins of Reality
by Paul Ward
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (1997)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
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