Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword to New and Expanded Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Filmmaker as Hunter: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North -- 2. "Peace between Man and Machine": Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera -- 3. Paradise Regained: Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva México! as Ethnography -- 4. Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes -- 5. The Art of National Projection: Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon -- 6. The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will -- 7. American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow That Broke the Plains and The City -- 8. "Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death": Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth -- 9. The Poetics of Propaganda: Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain -- 10. "It Was an Atrocious Film": Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts -- 11. The "Dialogic Imagination" of Jean Rouch: Covert Conversations in Les maîtres fous -- 12. Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog -- 13. Making the Past Present: Peter Watkins's Culloden -- 14. "Don't You Ever Just Watch?": American Cinema Verité and Dont Look Back -- 15. "Ethnography in the First Person": Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies -- 16. The Two Avant-Gardes: Solanas and Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces -- 17. Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes -- 18. "A Bastard Union of Several Forms": Style and Narrative in An American Family -- 19. The Documentary of Displaced Persona: Michael Rubbo's Daisy: The Story of a Facelift.

20. Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap -- 21. Documentary Film and the Discourse of Hysterical/Historical Narrative: Ross McElwee's Sherman's March -- 22. Subjectivity Lost and Found: Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like -- 23. Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and The Thin Blue Line -- 24. Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me -- 25. Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied -- 26. Containing Fire: Performance in Paris Is Burning -- 27. Contested Territory: Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa -- 28. Spike Lee's 4 Little Girls: The Politics of the Documentary Interview -- 29. The Gleaners and "Us": The Radical Modesty of Agnès Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse -- 30. "You Must Never Listen to This": Lessons on Sound, Cinema, and Mortality from Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man -- 31. Cultural Learnings of Borat for Make Benefit Glorious Study of Documentary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- BackCover.