Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract

Since Robert Flaherty's landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) arguments have raged over whether or not film records of people and traditions can ever be "aut

While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently e

Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression.

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camp