Documentary Films

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the A...

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their id...

Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years a period...

The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing sets out the techniques, the systems and the craft required to edit compelling professional documentary ...

The camera's capacity to organize space within a frame produces the fundamental unit of movie making: the shot. Dramatic Effects with a Movie Cam...

This book examines how documentary film responded to the methods and controversies associated with radical psychiatry, especially during the long 1...

This book examines the window in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 2000). It draws new attenti...

This book studies how documentaries, and factual media in general, can contribute to the reduction of social stigma and prejudice. It adopts models...

The chapters in this book show the important role that political documentary cinema has played in Latin America since the 1950s. Political document...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipela...

This timely collection of essays, Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s, examines the role of Irish documentary in film and tele...

In the years after the First World War the British government had to adapt its communication policy to connect with the new mass electorate. This b...

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the ...

This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a d...

Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by...

Natural history television on the ABC has been one of the public broadcasters most popular formats. For many viewers, TV has been an important cont...