Intellect Handbook of Documentary

Kate Nash is professor of media and communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published widely in the areas of documentary ethics, interactive documentary and on the relationship between documentary and politics. Her books include New Documentary Ecologies (2014 with Craig Hight and Catherine Summerhayes) and Interactive Documentary: Theory and Debate (2020). She is co-editor (with Craig Hight) of Studies in Documentary Film.Deane Williams is associate professor of film and screen studies at Monash University, Melbourne. From 2007–17 he was editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film, and his books include Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors (2008), Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane, 2009), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013–2017), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2016) and (with Julia Vassilieva) editor of Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (2021).

'The Intellect Handbook of Documentary is a welcome, comprehensive and substantial guide to the subject, incorporating chapters by leading authors on the subject, and covering many areas of historical and topical interest. The editors have a long and distinguished association with the field, and the Handbook will add to that.'

• Handbook of Documentary – Kate Nash and Deane WilliamsSection 1: Where and what is documentary (studies) in an age of epistemic crisis?Saying More about Documentary? Notes on Formation, Continuity and Change in the Field of Study – John CornerNext Steps: Post-Narrativity, Post-Truth (Post-Trump?) and Post-Digital is Poetry – Alexandra JuhaszThe Documentary Disposition – Michael RenovSection 2: Documentary in the Anthropocene ‘We Are Dead and We Are Going to Die’: The Apocalypse Documentary – Alisa LebowCinema of Qi: A Daoist Approach to Ecological, Sensory and Affective Cinema Through Vital Energy – Kiki Tianqi YuThe Possible Worlds of VR Documentary – Mandy RoseDocumentary Realism in the Anthropocene – Selmin KaraSection 3: Audio/Visualities: Polyphony, Complexity and RepresentationReflection, Staging and Documentary Film: The Monadic Camera-Subject – Fernão Pessoa RamosDocumentary Says ‘We’: Lyrical Polyphony as Practice – Simona SchneiderFlee and the Failure of Empathy – Annabelle Honess RoeSection 4: Re-viewing the Ethics and Politics of Representation Shirley Clarke’s The Connection and the Event of (Fake) Documentary – Jaimie BaronTowards a History of the International Association of Documentary Filmmakers: The Congress of Algiers 1968 – Mariano MestmanRecycling Indigenous Images: Archiveology and the National Film Board of Canada – Catherine RussellWang Bing’s Documentary Po/ethics of the Maoist Chaos and the Paradigm of Western Testimony: Unwitnessing, Victims, Collaborators, Followers, Cadres and Dissidents – Raya MoragSouth Somewhere Else: Decolonising the Documentary, Cross-Cultural Collaborative Filmmaking in the Global South – Deane Williams and Antonio TraversoSection 5: Documentary and PoliticsThe Case of Nuclear Documentary – Helen HughesRadical Civic Media: Equipe Media, Western Sahara and Global Documentary Ecologies – Ryan WatsonDocumentary Storytelling for Social Change in the Participatory Media Age: Understanding Nonfiction’s Social Impact and Future Challenges – Caty BorumEntertainment with a Purpose: Netflix and Documentary Today – Annie GoldsonDocumentary-on-Demand: Researching Audience Engagements with (Political) Documentary on Netflix –  Kate Nash and Craig HightFrom Testimony to the Cinema of Action in the Video nas Aldeias Project – Gilberto Alexandre SobrinhoSection 6: Production, Distribution, Audiences: The Changing Documentary ‘Industry’Utility for the Utilitarian: Documentary’s Uses for Other Kinds of Non-Fiction Film – Grace RussellDocumentary Funding in the Age of the Streamers – Inge Sørensen and Nick HigginsAudience Engagement: Streaming Factuality in the Nordic Region – Annette HillSection 7: Digital Documentary PracticesCompilationism and Digital Media: From Documentaries to Audio-Visual Essays – Chiara GrizzaffiAugmented Reality Documentary – Dale Hudson, Claudia Costa Pederson and Patty ZimmermanTilting at Windmills: The Technicizing of Empathy – Brian Winston with an introduction by Kate Nash