Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning’s Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Daniele Rugo is Professor of Film at Brunel, University of London and an award-winning filmmaker. He has held visiting positions at University of Oxford, LSE and Sciences Po.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Nonrepresentational Documentary1. What We Observe Is Not Reality Itself: Post-Vérité and Action Documentaries2. The Poetics of Found Footage Filmmaking3. Landscape Forensics: Sensing Violence in Empty Places4. Missing Pictures: Reenactment, Trauma and Creation5. Recoding Operational ImagesConclusion: Finding Beauty Amid DisasterBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex