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• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• How to Study Documentary
• How to Use This Book
• 1 Ways to Think About Documentary
• Description
• Definition
• Intellectual Contexts
• 2 Origins
• Early War and Propaganda Films
• Propaganda
• 3 Exploration and Establishment
• Exploration
• Early Visual Anthropology
• Frances and Robert Flaherty
• 4 The Soviets
• Reportage/Newsreel
• Theory
• Compilation
• Epic
• Fiction and Documentary
• 5 Avant-Garde Expressions
• Avant-Garde and Documentary
• City Symphonies
• Three Classic European City Symphonies
• Changes in the Avant-Garde
• 6 Institutionalization: Great Britain, 1929–39
• Background
• The System
• The Films
• Women Filmmakers
• Grierson’s Lasting Contribution
• 7 Institutionalization: United States
• The March of Time
• Government Sponsorship
• Nongovernment Documentaries
• Comparisons: The United Kingdom and The United States
• Canada
• An Aside
• 8 The Second World War
• Part A: Great Britain
• Part B: Canada
• Part C: United States
• Conclusions
• 9 The Postwar Era, 1945–60
• Personnel and Leadership
• Sponsorship
• Marshall Plan Films
• Canadian Independents
• USIA Films
• Subjects
• Approaches and Techniques
• 10 A New Channel: Documentary for Television, 1951–71
• A Technical Note
• Historical Background
• Documentary Series
• Characteristics of Broadcast Television Documentary
• 11 Free Cinema/New American Cinema, 1953–69
• Britain
• Critical Background
• The Films
• Meaning
• United States
• New York School Films
• New American Cinema
• 12 Cinéma Verité/Direct Cinema
• Historical Background
• New Technologies
• Canada
• United States
• The Films
• France
• Direct Cinema versus Cinema Verité
• Effects on Subjects and Styles
• Opposite Directions
• 13 Power to the People: The 1970s
• Some Established Filmmakers
• New Directions in CV/Direct
• Political Emphases
• The Feminist Surge
• Women’s Institutions
• Challenge for Change
• Public Access Television
• Other Emerging Organizations
• Conclusions
• 14 Video Arrives and Conquers: The 1980s
• Film to Video
• Cable and Satellite Technology
• The Personal Essay Film
• Historical Compilation
• Strictly Political
• Ongoing Activism
• Racial and Ethnic Voices
• Canada
• England
• Representing Gay and Lesbian Culture
• 15 100 Years of Documentary
• Business and Technology: The Bad and the Good
• American Public Television
• Archival Storytelling
• The Ken Burns Phenomenon
• Canada Soldiers On
• Developments in the UK
• American Independents
• 16 Documentary Traditions in the Twenty-first Century
• United States
• Six Noted Filmmakers
• Animation
• Experimental Film
• 17 Academic and Theoretical Approaches
• Finance
• Money and Ethics
• Film Festivals
• 18 Now and When
• Globalization
• Aesthetics and Content
• Intimate Doings of Reality
• Technologies
• Social Media and Documentary
• Commitment to History
• Effectiveness
• Conclusions
• Documentaries About Documentaries
• Filmmakers
• Introduction to Lists
• First-generation Documentary Makers
• Second-generation Documentary Makers
• Third-generation Documentary Makers
• Author Index
• Film Titles
• Plates
• Copyright