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Front Matter (Pages: i-xx)
Part I : Documentary Borders and Geographies
Introduction: Documentary Borders and Geographies (Pages: 1-7)
Alice Lovejoy, 
CHAPTER 1
A Distant Local View: The Small-Town Film and US Cultural Diplomacy and Occupation, 1942–1952 (Pages: 9-25)
Martin L. Johnson, 
CHAPTER 2
The Work of Displacement in Colonial Documentary: History, Movement, and Collectivity Between the Postwar Metropole and Colonial French West Africa (Pages: 27-46)
Paul Fileri, 
CHAPTER 3
Negation of the Negation: Tracking Documentary Film Theory in Japan (Pages: 47-70)
Naoki Yamamoto, 
CHAPTER 4
The Topographical Aesthetic in Late Stalinist Soviet Documentary Film (Pages: 71-93)
Raisa Sidenova, 
Part II : Authors, Authorship, and Authoring Agencies
Introduction: Authors, Authorship, and Authoring Agencies (Pages: 95-105)
James Leo Cahill, 
CHAPTER 5
Documentality: The Postwar Mental Health Film and the Database Logic of the Government Film Agency (Pages: 107-122)
Zoë Druick, 
CHAPTER 6
Unmanned Capture: Automatic Cameras and Lifeless Subjects in Contemporary Documentary (Pages: 123-146)
Joshua Neves, 
CHAPTER 7
Corporate Authorship: French Industrial Culture and the Culture of French Industry (Pages: 147-164)
Brian R. Jacobson, 
CHAPTER 8
A Skillful Isis: Esfir Shub and the Documentarian as Caretaker (Pages: 165-186)
Alla Gadassik, 
CHAPTER 9
Now and Then: On the Documentary Regime, Vertov, and History (Pages: 187-206)
Philip Rosen, 
Part III : Films and Film Movements
Introduction Films and Film Movements (Pages: 207-215)
Joshua Malitsky, 
CHAPTER 10
Documentary Dreams of Activism and the “Arab Spring” (Pages: 217-237)
Jane M. Gaines, 
CHAPTER 11
A Culture of Reality: Neorealism, Narrative Nonfiction, and Roberto Rossellini (1930s–1960s) (Pages: 239-254)
Luca Caminati, 
CHAPTER 12
The Romantic Becomes Dialectic?: Joris Ivens, Cold Warrior and Socialist Realist, 1946–1956 (Pages: 255-282)
Thomas Waugh, 
Part IV : Media Archaeologies
Introduction: Media Archaeologies (Pages: 283-289)
Malte Hagener, 
CHAPTER 13
A Concise History and Theory of Documentaries on the Visual Arts (Pages: 291-310)
Steven Jacobs, 
CHAPTER 14
Documentary in the Age of Mass Mobility: Minzu wansui and the Epic Gesture of Ethnographic Propaganda (Pages: 311-336)
Weihong Bao, 
CHAPTER 15
Documentary Plasticity: Embryology and the Moving Image (Pages: 337-366)
Oliver Gaycken, 
CHAPTER 16
Hans Richter and the Filmessay: A Media Archaeological Case Study of Documentary Film History and Historiography (Pages: 367-389)
Yvonne Zimmermann, 
Part V : Audiences and Circulation
Introduction: Audiences and Circulation: The Spaces of Reception (Pages: 391-399)
Brian Winston, 
CHAPTER 17
Nonfiction Film in and out of the Moving Picture Theater: Roosevelt in Africa (1910) (Pages: 401-420)
Gregory A. Waller, 
CHAPTER 18
The Marginal Spectator (Pages: 421-436)
Brian Winston, 
CHAPTER 19
“Every Spectator Is Either a Coward or a Traitor”: Watching The Hour of the Furnaces (Pages: 437-460)
Mariano Mestman, 
CHAPTER 20
From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine: The Nature of the Audience and the Persistence of Wishful Thinking (Pages: 461-477)
William Uricchio, 
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Index (Pages: 479-518)