Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leadin

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/

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.

The documentary film reader' brings together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers to provide a stimulating foundationa

A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew. Retaining the original edition's cor