Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2013.

xv, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

"A BFI book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Why documentaries matter -- Introduction: The filmed documentary -- Documentary values: The question of evidence, the power of rhetoric and documentary film / Bill Nichols ; 'I'll believe it when I trust the source' : documentary images and visual evidence / Carl Plantinga ; 'The performance documentary' : the performing film-maker, the acting subject / Stella Bruzzi ; On truth, objectivity and partisanship : the case of Michael Moore / Douglas Kellner ; CGI and the end of photography as evidence / Taylor Downing ; Drawn From life : the animated documentary / Andy Glynne ; Dramadoc? : docudrama? : the limits and protocols of a televisual form / Derek Paget ; Ambiguous audiences / Annette Hill ; Life As narrativised / Brian Winston -- The dance of documentary ethics / Pratap Rughani ; Deaths, transfigurations and the future / John Corner -- Documentary paradigms: Problems in historiography : the documentary tradition before Nanook of the North / Charles Musser ; John Grierson and the documentary film movement / Ian Aitken ; Challenges for change : Canada's National Film Board / Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton ; Grierson's legacies : Australia and New Zealand / Deane Williams ; New Deal documentary and the North Atlantic welfare state / Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahanan ; The triumph of observationalism : direct cinema in the USA / Dave Saunders ; Russian and Soviet documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov / Ian Christie ; The radical tradition in documentary film-making, 1920s-50s / Bert Hogenkamp ; Le groupe des Trente : the poetic tradition / Elena Von Kassel Siambani ; Cinéma vérité : Vertov revisited / Genevieve Van Cauwenberge ; Beyond sobriety : documentary diversions / Craig Hight -- Documentary horizons: Eastwards / Abe Mark Nornes ; Africa N. / Frank Ukadike ; Images From the south : contemporary documentary in Argentina and Brazil / Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao ; 'Roadblock' films, 'children's resistance' films and 'blood relations' films : Israeli and Palestinian documentary post-Intifada / Il Raya Morag ; Sacred, mundane and absurd revelations of the everyday ; Poetic vérité in the Eastern European tradition / Susanna Helke -- Documentary voices: First-person political / Alisa Lebow ; Feminist documentaries : finding, seeing and using them / Julia Lesage ; Pioneers of Black documentary film / Pearl Bowser ; LGTBs' documentary identity / Christopher Pullen ; Docusoaps : the ordinary voice as popular entertainment / Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV : a sign of the times? / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn -- Documentary disciplines: Anthropology : the evolution of ethnographic film / Paul Henley ; Science, society and documentary / Tim Boon ; History documentaries for television / Ann Gray ; Music, documentary, music documentary / Michael Chanan ; Art, documentary as art / Michael Renov -- Documentary futures: Documentary as open space / Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann ; 'This great mapping of ourselves' : new documentary forms online / John Dovey and Mandy Rose ; New platforms for 'docmedia' : 'varient of a manifesto' / Peter Wintonick -- Afterword: The unchanging question / Brian Winston.

Documentary films.

Documentary films -- History and criticism.

Winston, Brian.

British Film Institute.

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