AN ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DOCUMENTARY FILM
AITKEN, Ian (ed). The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2012.
AITKEN, Ian (ed). The Documentary Film Movement: an anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
AITKEN, Ian. Film and Reform: John Grierson and the documentary film movement. London: Routledge, 1990.
AITKEN, Ian; INGHAM, Michael. Hong Kong Documentary Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
ALEXANDER, William. Film on the Left: American documentary film from 1931 to 1942. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
ALTER, Nora M. Projecting History: German nonfiction cinema, 1967-2000. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
AMES, Eric. Ferocious Reality: documentary according to Werner Herzog. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
ANDERSON, Carolyn; BENSON, Thomas W. Documentary Dilemmas: Fredrick Wiseman’s ‘Titicut Follies’. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
ANDERSON, Carolyn; BENSON, Thomas W. Reality Fictions: the films of Fredrick Wiseman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
ARTIS, Anthony Q. The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: a down & dirty DV production, 2nd ed. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2014;
AUFDERHEIDE, Patricia. Documentary Film: a very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
AUSTIN, Thomas; JONG, Wilma de. Rethinking Documentary: new perspectives and practices. New York: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2008.
BADDELEY, Walter Hugh. The Technique of Documentary Film Production. 4th rev. ed. New York: Hastings House, 1975.
BAKER, Maxine. Documentary in the Digital Age. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2006.
BAKKER, Kees (ed). Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.
BALSON, Erika; PELEG, Hila. Documentary Across Disciplines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
BARBASH, Ilisa; TAYLOR, Lucien. Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
BARNOUW, Erik. Documentary: a history of the non-fiction film, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
BARSAM, Richard M. Non-fiction Film: a critical history, rev. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
BARSAM, Richard M. The Vision of Robert Flaherty: the artist as myth and filmmaker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
BARSON, Tanya; CAMPANY, David; MORRIS, Lynda; NASH, Mark. Making History: art and documentary in Britain from 1929 to now. London: Tate Publishing, 2006.
BEATTIE, Keith. Documentary Display: re-viewing nonfiction film and video. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
BEATTIE, Keith. Documentary Screens: non-fiction film and television. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
BENAMOU, Catherine L. It’s All True: Orson Welles’ Pan-American Odyssey. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.
BENSON, Thomas W.; SNEE, Brian J. (eds). Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
BENSON, Thomas W.; SNEE, Brian J. (eds). The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
BERNARD, Sheila Curran. Documentary Storytelling: creative nonfiction on screen, 3rd ed. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2010.
BERRY, Chris; LU, Xinyu; ROFEL, Lisa (eds). The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: for the public record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
BLOOM, Peter J. French Colonial Documentary: mythologies of humanitarianism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
BLUEM, William A. Documentary in American Television: form, function, method. New York: Hastings House, 1965.
BOON, Timothy. Films of Fact: a history of science in documentary films and television. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
BOUSÉ, Derek. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
BRINK, Joram Ten; OPPENHEIMER, Joshua (eds). Killer Images: documentary film, memory and the performance of violence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
BRUZZI, Stella. New Documentary: a critical introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006.
BRYANT, Marsha. Auden and Documentary in the 1930s. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
BULLERT, B.J. Public Television: politics and the battle over documentary film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
BURTON, Julianne (ed). The Social Documentary in Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
CARTWRIGHT, Lisa. Physiological Modernism: scientific cinema and the technologies of ‘Life’. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
CHANAN, Michael (ed). Twenty-Five Years of the New Latin American Cinema. London: British Film Institute/Channel Four Television, 1983.
CHANAN, Michael. The Politics of Documentary. London: British Film Institute, 2008.
CHAPMAN, Jane L. Issues in Contemporary Documentary. Malden, MA: Polity, 2009.
CHU, Yingchi. Chinese Documentaries: from dogma to polyphony. London: Routledge, 2007.
CITRON, Michelle. Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
COOPER, Sarah. Selfless Cinema? Ethics and French documentary. Oxford: Legenda, 2006.
CORNER, John. The Art of Record: a critical introduction to documentary. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
COUSINS, Mark; MacDONALD, Kevin (eds). Imagining Reality: the Faber book of documentary, rev. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.
COWIE, Elizabeth. Recording Reality, Desiring the Real. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
CRAWFORD, Peter; TURTON, David (eds). Film as Ethnography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
CUNNINGHAM, Megan. The Art of the Documentary: ten conversations with leading directors, cinematographers, editors, and producers. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2005.
CURTIN, Michael. Redeeming the Wasteland: television documentary and Cold War politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
DELMAR, Rosalind. Joris Ivens: 50 years of filmmaking. London: British Film Institute, 1979.
DRUICK, Zoë. Projecting Canada: Government policy and documentary film at the National Film Board. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. Druick, Zoë.
EATON, Mick (ed). Anthropology-Reality-Cinema: the films of Jean Rouch. London: British Film Institute, 1979.
EDWARDS, Leigh H. The Triumph of Reality TV: the revolution in American television. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2013.
ELLIS, Jack C. The Documentary Idea: a critical history of English-language documentary film and video. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
ELLIS, John. Documentary: witness and self-revelation. London: Routledge, 2012.
EVANS, Gary. John Grierson and the National Film Board of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
FELD, Steven (ed). Ciné-Ethnography – Jean Rouch. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
FIELDING, Raymond. The American Newsreel, 1911-1967. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
FIELDING, Raymond. The March of Time, 1935-1951. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
GAINES, Jane M.; RENOV, Michael (eds). Collecting Visible Evidence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
GEIGER, Jeffrey. American Documentary Film: projecting the nation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
GINSBURG, Faye D.; ABU-LUGHOD, Lila; LARKIN, Brian (eds). Media Worlds: anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002
GIRGUS, Sam B. America on Film: modernism, documentary, and a changing America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
GLYNNE, Andy. Documentaries... and How to Make Them, 2nd ed. Harpenden, UK: Oldcastle
Books, 2013.
GOLDSMITH, David. Documentary Makers: interviews with 15 of the best in the business. Hove, UK: RotoVision, 2003.
GRANT, Barry Keith. Voyages of Discovery: the cinema of Frederick Wiseman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
GRANT, Barry Keith; HILLIER, Jim. 100 Documentary Films. London: British Film Institute, 2009.
GRANT, Barry Keith; SLONIOWSKI, Jeannette (eds). Documenting the Documentary: close readings of documentary film and video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
GROSS, Larry; KATZ, John Stuart; RUBY, Jay (eds). Image Ethics: the moral rights of subjects in photographs, film, and television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
GUYNN, William. A Cinema of Nonfiction. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.
HADDU, Miriam; PAGE, Joanna (eds). Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
HAGGITH, Toby; NEWMAN, Joanna (eds). Holocaust and the Moving Image: representations in film and television since 1933. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.
HALLAS, Roger; GUERIN, Frances (eds). The Image and the Witness: trauma, memory and visual culture. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.
HAMMOND, Charles Montgomery. The Image Decade: television documentary 1965-1975. New York: Hastings House, 1981.
HAMPE, Barry. Making Documentary Films and Videos: a practical guide to planning, filming, and editing documentaries, 2nd ed. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2007.
HARDY, Forsyth (ed). Grierson on Documentary. London: Collins, 1946.
HARDY, Forsyth. John Grierson: a documentary biography. London: Faber and Faber, 1979.
HEIDER, Karl G. Ethnographic Film, rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
HEIDER, Karl G. Seeing Anthropology: cultural anthropology through film, 4th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2007.
HERTOGS, Daan; KLERK, Nico de (eds). Uncharted Territory: essays on early nonfiction films. Amsterdam: Nederlands Filmmuseum, 1997.
HEWITT, John; VAZQUEZ, Gustavo. Documentary Filmmaking: a contemporary field guide, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
HEYMAN, Neil M. Western Civilization: a critical guide to documentary films. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
HICKS, Jeremy. Dziga Vertov: defining documentary film. London: I.B.Tauris, 2007.
HOGARTH, David. Realer Than Reel: global directions in documentary. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
HOLMLUND, Chris; FUCHS, Cynthia (eds). Between the Sheets, in the Streets: queer, lesbian, and gay documentary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
HOOVER, Dwight W. Middletown: the making of a documentary film series. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1992.
ISHIZUKA, Karen L.; ZIMMERMANN, Patricia R. (eds). Mining the Home Movie: excavations in histories and memories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
IVENS, Joris. The Camera and I. New York: International Publishers, 1969.
IZOD, John; KILBORN, Richard; HIBBERD, Matthew, eds. (1 January 2000). From Grierson to the Docu-soap: breaking the boundaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
JACOBS, Lewis (ed). The Documentary Tradition: from Nanook to Woodstock, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.
JOLLIFFE, Genevieve; ZINNES, Andrew. The Documentary Film Makers Handbook: a guerilla guide. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2006.
JUHASZ, Alexandra; LERNER, Jesse (eds). F Is For Phony: fake documentary and truth’s undoing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
KAHANA, Jonathan (ed). The Documentary Film Reader: history, theory, criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
KAHANA, Jonathan. Intelligence Work: the politics of American documentary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
KELLNER, Douglas; STREIBLE, Dan (eds). Emile de Antonio: a reader. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
KLOTMAN, Phyllis R.; CUTLER, Janet K. (eds). Struggles for Representation: African American documentary film and video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
LANE, Jim. The Autobiographical Documentary in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
LANSELL, Ross; BEILBY, Peter (eds). The Documentary Film in Australia. Melbourne: Cinema Papers, 1982.
LAY, Samantha. British Social Realism: from documentary to Brit grit. London: Wallflower Press, 2002.
LEACH, Jim; SLONIOWSKI, Jeannette (eds). Candid Eyes: essays on Canadian documentaries. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
LEVIN, G. Roy. Documentary Explorations: 15 interviews with film-makers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
LEVINE, Alison J. Murray. Framing the Nation: documentary film in interwar France. New York: Continuum, 2010.
LEYDA, Jay. Films Beget Films: a study of the compilation film. New York: Hill & Wang, 1964.
LINDEPERG, Sylvie. ‘Night and Fog’: a film in history. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
LOGAN, Philip C. Humphrey Jennings and British Documentary Film: a re-assessment. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2011.
LOIZOS, Peter. Innovation in Ethnographic Film: from innocence to self-consciousness, 1955-1985. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
LORENTZ, Pare. FDR’s Moviemaker: memoirs & scripts. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992.
LORENTZ, Pare. Lorentz on Film: Movies 1927 to 1941. New York: Hopkins and Blake, 1975.
LOVELL, Alan; HILLIER, Jim. Studies in Documentary. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1972.
LOW, Rachel. Documentary and Educational Films of the 1930s. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979.
MacCANN, Richard Dyer. The People’s Films: a political history of U.S. Government motion pictures. New York: Hastings House, 1973.
MacDONALD, Scott. American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: the Cambridge turn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
MacDONALD, Scott. Avant-Doc: intersections of documentary and avant-garde cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
MAMBER, Stephen. Cinema Vérité in America: studies in uncontrolled documentary. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974.
McENTEER, James. Shooting the Truth: the rise of American political documentaries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
McLANE, Betsy A. A New History of Documentary Film, 2nd ed. New York: Continuum, 2012.
MICHELSON, Annette (ed). Kino-Eye: the writings of Dziga Vertov. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
MILLER, Toby. Technologies of Truth: cultural citizenship and the popular media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
MITMAN, Gregg. Reel Nature: America’s romance with wildlife on film, 2nd ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
MORAN, James M. There’s no Place Like Home Video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
NARWEKAR, Sanjit. A History of the Indian Documentary Film. Trowbridge, UK: Flicks, 1994.
NELSON, Joyce. The Colonized Eye: rethinking the Grierson legend. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1988.
NICHOLS, Bill. Blurred Boundaries: questions of meaning in contemporary culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
NICHOLS, Bill. Introduction to Documentary, 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
NICHOLS, Bill. Newsreel: political filmmaking and the American left, 1969-1974. New York: Arno Press, 1980.
NICHOLS, Bill. Representing Reality: issues and concepts in documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
NICHOLS, Bill. Speaking Truths with Film: evidence, ethics, politics in documentary. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016.
NICHOLS, Bill; RENOV, Michael (eds). Cinema’s Alchemist: the films of Péter Forgács. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
NORNES, Abé Mark. Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and postwar Japanese documentary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
NORNES, Abé Mark. Japanese Documentary Film: the Meiji Era through Hiroshima. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
O’BRIEN, Harvey. The Real Ireland: the evolution of Ireland in documentary film. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
O’CONNELL, P. J. Robert Drew and the development of Cinema Vérité in America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
PAGET, Derek. True Stories? Documentary drama on radio, screen and stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
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PAPAZIAN, Elizabeth Astrid. Manufacturing Truth: the documentary moment in early soviet culture. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008.
PEARCE, Gail; McLAUGHLIN, Cahal (eds). Truth or Dare: art and documentary. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2008.