A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

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Alexandra Juhasz is Chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College CUNY. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995) Women of Vision (2001) F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005) Learning from YouTube (2011) and co-editor of Sisters in the Life (with Yvonne Welbon 2018) and AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (with Nishant Shahani and Jih-Fei Cheng). Dr Juhasz is the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010) as well as many real documentaries. Her current work is on radical digital media literacy given that fact of fake news: fakenews-poetry.com. Alisa Lebow is Professor of Screen Media at the University of Sussex. Her publications include the interactive project Filming Revolution (2018) The Cinema of Me (2012) and First Person Jewish (2008) along with numerous articles on aspects of documentary ranging from art and documentary to questions of the political in documentary. Lebow has also made several documentaries including Outlaw (1994) Treyf (1998) and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2006).