Patricia Aufderheide - Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aufderheide, Patricia.
Documentary film: a very short introduction
/ Patricia Aufderheide.
p. cm.(Very short introductions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5 (pbk.)
1. Documentary filmsHistory and criticism.
I. Title.
PN1995.9.D6A94 2007
070.18dc22
2007018114

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Very Short Introductions available now:

ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones ANARCHISM Colin Ward

ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman

THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller

THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Paul Foster ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn

ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne ARISTOCRACY William Doyle

ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes

ART HISTORY Dana Arnold

ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland ATHEISM Julian Baggini

AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick

AUTISM Uta Frith

BARTHES Jonathan Culler

BESTSELLERS John Sutherland THE BIBLE John Riches

BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY Eric H. Cline BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee

THE BOOK OF MORMON Terryl Givens THE BRAIN Michael OShea

BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright BUDDHA Michael Carrithers

BUDDHISM Damien Keown

BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CAPITALISM James Fulcher

CATHOLICISM Gerald OCollins THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe

CHAOS Leonard Smith

CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY Helen Morales CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard

THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes

CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley COSMOLOGY Peter Coles

THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Sean Murphy DADA AND SURREALISM David Hopkins DARWIN Jonathan Howard

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick

DESCARTES Tom Sorell

DESERTS Nick Middleton

DESIGN John Heskett

DINOSAURS David Norman

DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa DOCUMENTARY FILM Patricia Aufderheide DREAMING J. Allan Hobson

DRUGS Leslie Iversen

DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe

THE EARTH Martin Redfern

ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta

EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Paul Langford THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball

EMOTION Dylan Evans

EMPIRE Stephen Howe

ENGELS Terrell Carver

ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci ETHICS Simon Blackburn

THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder and Simon Usherwood EVOLUTION Brian and Deborah Charlesworth EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn FASCISM Kevin Passmore

FASHION Rebecca Arnold

FEMINISM Margaret Walters

FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak

THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Howard FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY David Canter FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser FOSSILS Keith Thomson

FOUCAULT Gary Gutting

FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton FREE WILL Thomas Pink

FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons THE FRENCH REVOLUTION William Doyle FREUD Anthony Storr

FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven GALAXIES John Gribbin

GALILEO Stillman Drake

GAME THEORY Ken Binmore

GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh

GEOGRAPHY John Matthews and David Herbert GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds

GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle GERMAN PHILOSOPHY Andrew Bowie GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin

GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson HEGEL Peter Singer

HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood

HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson HINDUISM Kim Knott

HISTORY John H. Arnold

THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin THE HISTORY OF LIFE Michael Benton THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE William Bynum THE HISTORY OF TIME Leofranc Holford-Strevens HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside

HOBBES Richard Tuck

HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUME A. J. Ayer

IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton INFORMATION Luciano Floridi INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and David Gann INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION Khalid Koser INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson ISLAM Malise Ruthven

ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves

JUDAISM Norman Solomon

JUNG Anthony Stevens

KABBALAH Joseph Dan

KAFKA Ritchie Robertson

KANT Roger Scruton

KEYNES Robert Skidelsky

KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner THE KORAN Michael Cook

LANDSCAPES AND CEOMORPHOLOGY Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles LAW Raymond Wacks

THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS Peter Atkins LEADERSHIP Keth Grint LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo

LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews

LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler LOCKE John Dunn

LOGIC Graham Priest

MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MARX Peter Singer

MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers

THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Eagleton MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope

MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster

MICHAEL FARADAY Frank A. J. L. James MODERN ART David Cottington MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter

MODERN IRELAND Senia Paseta MODERN JAPAN Christopher Goto-Jones MODERNISM Christopher Butler MOLECULES Philip Ball

MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman MUSIC Nicholas Cook

MYTH Robert A. Segal

NATIONALISM Steven Grosby

NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT Luke Timothy Johnson THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE Kyle Keefer NEWTON Robert Iliffe

NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew THE NORMAN CONQUEST George Garnett NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland NOTHING Frank Close

NUCLEAR WEAPONS Joseph M. Siracusa THE OLD TESTAMENT Michael D. Coogan PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close PAUL E. P. Sanders

PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Raymond Wacks PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Samir Okasha PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards

PLANETS David A. Rothery

PLATO Julia Annas

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller POLITICS Kenneth Minogue

POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler POSTSTRUCTURALISM Catherine Belsey PREHISTORY Chris Gosden

PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Catherine Osborne PRIVACY Raymond Wacks