Front Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking documentary -- PART 1: Critical Perspectives on Documentary Forms and Concepts -- Chapter 1: Documentary Studies: Dimensions of transition and continuity -- Chapter 2: The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film -- Chapter 3: First-person Films: Some theses on self-inscription -- Chapter 4: ' …To Leave the Confinements of His Humanness': Authorial voice, death and constructions of nature inWerner Herzog's Grizzly Man -- Chapter 5: Collective Subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. Alienation in 'Western' Interview Documentary -- Chapter 6: Documentary as Critical and Creative Research -- Chapter 7: Reframing Ethnographic Film -- Chapter 8: Transcendental Realism in Documentary -- Chapter 9: Filming 'the Invisible' -- Part II: The Changing Faces of Documentary Production -- Chapter 10: Developing and Producing a Feature Documentary: The case of Deep Water -- Chapter 11: Filmmakers and Their Subjects -- Chapter 12: From Eight-Man Crew to One-Woman Band: My life in television documentary -- Chapter 13: 'You Want to Know That, This Is Real, This Is What Happened': An interview with John Smithson -- Chapter 14: 'The Idea That There's a ''Truth'' That You Discover Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow': An interview with Ralph Lee -- Chapter 15: Rice N Peas: Alternative, independent and provocative -- Chapter 16: 'The Importance of Memory': An interview with Ai Xiaoming -- Part III: Contemporary Documentary: Borders, Neighbours and Disputed Territories -- Chapter 17: Drama-documentary, Ethics and Notions of Performance: The 'Flight 93' Films -- Chapter 18: Mockumentary: A call to play -- Chapter 19: Documentary Modes of Engagement.

Chapter 20: 'Ask the Fastidious Woman from Surbiton to Hand-wash the Underpants of the Aging Oldham Skinhead …' Why not Wife Swap? -- Chapter 21: Simulating the Public Sphere -- Chapter 22: TheWork ofWork Reality TV and the negotiation of neo-liberal labour in The Apprentice -- Part IV: Digital and Online Documentaries: Opportunities and Limitations -- Chapter 23: Documentary Viewing Platforms -- Chapter 24: Online Documentary -- Chapter 25: Public domains: Engaging Iraq through experimental documentary digitalities -- Chapter 26: Documentary on YouTube: The failure of the direct cinema of the slogan -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.