Documentary Films

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until ...

Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of land measurement primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years. It investigates...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of ...

Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cine...

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger th...

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the ...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned dir...

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contem...

'My' Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China's post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual ...

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 ...

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to th...

'It is a Lord of the Flies parable with Bhagwan as lord. The book is a fascinating social history, with many celebrities, from Diana Ross to Prince...

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exoti...

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exoti...

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...