Documentary Films

Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events a...

Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events a...

Mapping out a diverse journey through documentary distribution, this book is a comprehensive global how-to reference guide, providing insights into...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...

Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as ...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics,...

In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film prod...

In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film prod...

From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals cha...

To anyone who wants to make a doc but doesnt have a lot of time, money, or experience, Anthony Artis says: Its time to get down and dirty!a filmmak...

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documen...

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

In the ghetto, transit and concentration camp Theresienstadt, film recordings were made with the forced participation of the deportees and became k...

In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and polit...

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding stor...

While the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran is internationally acknowledged, the world outside Iran has been ignorant of the Iranian war films that...

The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a s...

- A comprehensive examination of contemporary ecocinema studies, exploring key developments in the field over the last decade. - Global and diverse...

Frederick Wiseman is Americas foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; ...