Documentary Films

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected q...

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effec...

Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new...

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. Concentrating on the...

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the hist...

Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusi...

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of ...

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 C...

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

Most documentaries deal with men, but what do they actually say about masculinity? In this groundbreaking volume Sara Martín analyses more than for...

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 ...