Documentary Films

Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show...

Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975- 77. Su...

This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It ...

Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in n...

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. I...

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustaine...

Silence of the Tides presents a stunning selection of images from a newly-released documentary about the Wadden Sea, the largest tidal wetlands a...

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Travel...

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Travel...

In the 1970s, Southern Africa became the major locale for African filmmaking with an increasing use of the Kalahari Desert, Okavango Delta and Krug...

Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainlan...

When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the f...

A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current do...

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate thi...

In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. De...

How Documentaries Work breaks down the hidden conventions of documentaries in clear and accessible language for film students and documentary enthu...

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization...

The Documentary Filmmakers Roadmap is a concise and practical guide to making a feature-length documentary filmfrom funding to production to distri...

This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as ...

Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. Olympic sports documentaries have been around nearly as long as the ...

This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodg...

Journalism, Power and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introdu...