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Etem, Aysehan Jülide. 2026. Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey–US Relations. Columbia University Press.
Gabara, Rachel. 2026. Documentary Objectives: Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence. Indiana University Press.
Lessard, Bruno. 2026. Rithy Panh: La Remise En Récit Du Génocide Cambodgien (Rithy Panh: Retelling the Cambodian Genocide). Peter Lang.
Lübecker, Nikolaj, and Daniele Rugo. 2026. Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence. Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality. Edinburgh University Press.
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Abusalama, Shahd. 2025. Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film. 1st ed. SOAS Palestine Studies. I.B. Tauris.
Adamson, Morgan. 2018. Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema. University of Minnesota Press.
Aguayo, Angela J. 2019. Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media. Oxford University Press.
Alekseyeva, Julia. 2025. Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s. University of California Press.
Alter, Nora M. 2024. Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence. 1st ed. Columbia University Press.
Alvarado, Alejandro. 2018. La Poscensura En El Cine Documental de La Transición Española (Postcensorship in the Documentary Film of the Spanish Transition). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.
Astourian, Laure. 2024. The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema. First edition. New Directions in National Cinemas Series. Indiana University Press.
Aufderheide, Patricia. 2024. Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy. University of California Press.
Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. 2011. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright. University of Chicago Press.
Baker, Michael Brendan, and Jessica Mulvogue, eds. 2024. The Interactive Documentary in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Baron, Jaimie, and Kristen Fuhs, eds. 2021. I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue. Docalogue. Routledge.
Battaglia, Giulia. 2018. Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series 120. Routledge.
Bennett-Carpenter, Benjamin. 2018. Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience. Value Inquiry Book Series. Brill/Rodopi.
Bernard, Sheila Curran, and Kenn Rabin. 2009. Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music. 1st edition. Focal Press.
Borum, Caty, and David Conrad-Pérez. 2025. Radical Reality: Documentary Storytelling and the Global Fight for Social Justice. 1st ed. Oxford University Press.
Boyle, Deirdre. 2023. Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh. Rutgers University Press.
Bricca, Jacob. 2017. Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice. 1st edition. Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis.
Bricca, Jacob. 2023. How Documentaries Work. Oxford University Press.
Brizuela, Natalia, and Krista Brune, eds. 2024. Listening to Others: Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentary Cinema. SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema. State University of New York Press.
Brylla, Catalin. 2023. Documentary and Stereotypes: Reducing Stigma through Factual Media. Palgrave Macmillan.
Brylla, Catalin, and Mette Kramer, eds. 2018. Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film. Palgrave Macmillan.
Bui, Camille. 2018. Cinépratiques de la ville: documentaire et urbanité après Chronique d’un été. Arts, Série Hors champ. Presses universitaires de Provence.
Cahill, James Leo, and Luca Caminati, eds. 2020. Cinema of Exploration: Essays in Adventurous Film Practice. AFI Film Readers. Routledge.
Caldwell, John Thornton. 2023. Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries. University of California Press.
Caminati, Luca. 2024. Traveling Auteurs: The Geopolitics of Postwar Italian Cinema. Indiana University Press.
Cammaer, Gerda, Blake Fitzpatrick, and Bruno Lessard, eds. 2018. Critical Distance in Documentary Media. Palgrave Macmillan.
Campo, Javier, and Humberto Pérez-Blanco, eds. 2019. A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema: The Hour of the Furnaces Fifty Years Later. Intellect.
Campo, Javier, Pablo Piedras, Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli, Kristi M. Wilson, and Clara Garavelli, eds. 2020. El Cine Documental. Una Encrucijada Estética y Política: Inquisiciones Contemporáneas al Sistema Audiovisual (Documentary Cinema. An Aesthetic and Political Crossroads). Prometeo Libros.
Cazenave, Jennifer. 2019. An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah. SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture. SUNY Press.
Chambers, Ciara, Mats Jönsson, and Roel Vande Winkel, eds. 2018. Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies. Global Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan.
Chanan, Michael. 2022. From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production under Capitalism. Marxism and Culture. Pluto Press.
Chang, Anita Wen-Shin. 2020. Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Transmedia Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics. Peter Lang.
Clark, Joseph. 2020. News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle. University of Minnesota Press.
Cohen, Hart. 2018. The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media. Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities. Routledge.
Conway, Mike. 2019. Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America. University of Massachusetts Press.
Coover, Roderick, ed. 2019. The Digital Imaginary: Literature and Cinema of the Database. Electronic Literature ; Volume 2. Bloomsbury Academic.
Crosta, Suzanne, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap, eds. 2023. Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers: Beyond Representation. Indiana University Press.
Daniels, Jill. 2019. Memory, Place and Autobiography: Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Etem, Aysehan Jülide. 2026. Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey–US Relations. Columbia University Press.
Evrard, Audrey. 2022. Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century. French and Francophone Studies. University of Wales Press.
Ferrer, Lorena Cervera. 2025. A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary. Routledge.
Fore, Devin. 2024. Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism. Chicago Scholarship Online. University of Chicago Press.
Formenti, Cristina. 2020. Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution. Bloomsbury.
Fox, Broderick. 2017. Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice. 2nd Edition. Routledge.
Freeman, Marilyn. 2020. The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory & Contemplative Practice of Media Art. First edition. The 3rd Thing.
French, Lisa. 2021. The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.
Fritsche, Maria. 2018. The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans: A Captivated Audience? First edition. Bloomsbury Academic.
Gabara, Rachel. 2026. Documentary Objectives: Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence. Indiana University Press.
Geidel, Molly. 2025. The Development Film in the Americas. University of California Press.
Geva, Dan. 2018. Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian: A Prolegomenon. Palgrave Macmillan.
Geva, Dan. 2022. The Ethics Lab Guidebook. Ethics Lab Publication, CILECT, Beit Berl College.
Geva, Dan. 2025. A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960-1990. 1st ed. 2025. Religion and Philosophy Series. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Ghosh, Bishnupriya, and Bhaskar Sarkar, eds. 2020. The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk. Routledge.
Glick, Joshua. 2018. Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977. University of California Press.
Glick, Joshua, and Patricia Aufderheide, eds. 2025. The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary. 1st ed. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press.
Godard, Jean-Luc, and Michael Witt. 2024. Notre Musique, c’est Celle de Tout Le Monde. 202 éditions.
Godmilow, Jill. 2022. Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars. With Bill Nichols. Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary. Columbia University Press.
Gordon, Rachel. 2022. The Documentary Distribution Toolkit: How to Get Out, Get Seen, and Get an Audience. Routledge.
Grieveson, Lee. 2017. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System. 1st ed. University of California Press.
Hallas, Roger, ed. 2020. Documenting the Visual Arts. Routledge.
Hallas, Roger. 2023. A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography in Documentary Film. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press.
Hamilton, Kevin. 2019. Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War. With Ned O’Gorman. Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press.
Hart, Phoebe. 2024. Crafting Contemporary Documentaries and Docuseries for Global Screens: Docu-Mania. First edition. Lexington Books.
Holtzman, Hannah. 2024. Through a Nuclear Lens: France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima. SUNY Press.
Honess Roe, Annabelle, and Maria Pramaggiore, eds. 2018. Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary. Bloomsbury Academic.
Imran, Rahat. 2016. Activist Documentary Film in Pakistan: The Emergence of a Cinema of Accountability. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series. Routledge.
Jacobs, Steven, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher, eds. 2019. The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars. AFI Film Readers Series. Routledge.
Jaeckle, Jeff, and Susan Ryan, eds. 2019. ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple. ReFocus. The American Directors Series. Edinburgh University Press.
Johnson, Martin L. 2018. Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States. Indiana University Press.
Kermanchi, Jasmin, and Anna Wiehl, eds. 2025. Expanded Documentary: Ecologies of Images | Images of Ecology. AVINUS Verlag.
Kim, Jihoon. 2022. Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary. Oxford University Press.
Kim, Jihoon. 2024. Activism and Post-Activism: Korean Documentary Cinema 1981-2022. Oxford University Press.
Kishore, Shweta. 2018. Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Independence in Practice. Edinburgh University Press.
Kishore, Shweta, and Kunal Ray, eds. 2024. Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice. Political Cinemas. Edinburgh University Press.
Krzych, Scott. 2021. Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria. Oxford University Press.
Lessard, Bruno. 2023. Cinema of Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labor. First edition. Hong Kong University Press.
Lessard, Bruno. 2026. Rithy Panh: La Remise En Récit Du Génocide Cambodgien (Rithy Panh: Retelling the Cambodian Genocide). Peter Lang.
Li, Jie. 2023. Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China. Columbia University Press.
Lord, Susan, María Caridad Cumaná, and Víctor Fowler Calzada, eds. 2021. The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution. New Directions in National Cinemas. Indiana University Press.
Loustaunau, Esteban, and Lauren Shaw, eds. 2018. Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America. University of Florida Press.
Lübecker, Nikolaj, and Daniele Rugo. 2026. Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence. Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality. Edinburgh University Press.
MacDonald, Scott, and Patricia R. Zimmermann, eds. 2021. Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar. Indiana University Press.
MacKay, John. 2018. Dziga Vertov: Life and Work. Film and Media Studies. Academic Studies Press.
Malitsky, Joshua, ed. 2021. A Companion to Documentary Film History. Wiley Blackwell.
Mani, Lata. 2022. Myriad Intimacies. Duke University Press.
Margulies, Ivone. 2019. In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema. Oxford University Press.
Melamed, Laliv. 2023. Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence. 1st ed. University of California Press.
Miles, Adrian, ed. 2018. Digital Media and Documentary: Antipodean Approaches. Palgrave Pivot. Palgrave Macmillan.
Milliken, Christie, and Steve F. Anderson, eds. 2021. Reclaiming Popular Documentary. Indiana University Press.
Morag, Raya. 2020. Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary. Nonfictions Series. Wallflower Press.
Morgan, Daniel. 2021. The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera. University of California Press.
Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria, and Heather Norris Nicholson. 2018. British Women Amateur Filmmakers: National Memories and Global Identities. Edinburgh University Press.
Nash, Kate. 2021. Interactive Documentary: Theory and Debate. Routledge.
Nash, Kate, and Deane Williams, eds. 2025. The Intellect Handbook of Documentary. Intellect.
Nichols, Bill. 2016. Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary. University of California Press.
Nichols, Bill, and Jaimie Baron. 2024. Introduction to Documentary. Fourth edition. Indiana University Press.
Odorico, Stefano. 2018. The Interactive Documentary Form: Aesthetics, Practice and Research. Transcript.
O’Rawe, Des. 2024. Documentary Film and Radical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies. Springer Nature.
Panse, Silke, ed. 2024. Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images. Bloomsbury.
Piotrowska, Agnieszka, ed. 2020. Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness. Edinburgh University Press.
Piotrowska, Agnieszka. 2023. Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film. Second Edition. Routledge.
Piotrowska, Agnieszka, ed. 2025. The Ethics of Documentary Film: New Approaches. Edinburgh University Press.
Presence, Steve, Mike Wayne, and Jack Newsinger, eds. 2020. Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists. Routledge.
Qian, Ying. 2024. Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China. First Edition. Investigating Visible Evidence. Columbia University Press.
Ramírez Soto, Elizabeth. 2019. (Un)Veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures ; Volume 20. Legenda (distributed by Modern Humanities Research Association).
Ramos, Julio, and Dylon Lamar Robbins, eds. 2019. Guillén Landrián o el desconcierto fílmico. Almenara.
Rangan, Pooja. 2025. The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability. 1st ed. Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary Series. Columbia University Press.
Rice, D. Andy. 2023. Political Camerawork: Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma. Indiana University Press.
Robé, Chris. 2023. Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression. PM Press.
Robé, Chris, and Stephen Charbonneau, eds. 2020. InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader. Indiana University Press.
Rogers, Christine, Kim Munro, Liz Burke, and Catherine Gough-Brady, eds. 2023. Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory. Artwork Scholarship. Intellect Books.
Sadlier, Darlene J. 2022. A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film: From Nationalism to Protest. First edition. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. University of Texas Press.
Sadlier, Darlene J. 2023. Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias Del Subdesarrollo). BFI Film Classics. BFI Publishing.
Salazkina, Masha, and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez, eds. 2020. Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures. Indiana University Press.
Schultz-Figueroa, Benjamin. 2023. The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life. University of California Press.
Shilina-Conte, Tanya. 2024. Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine. Oxford University Press.
Skvirsky, Salomé Aguilera. 2020. The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor. Duke University Press.
Slugan, Mario. 2019. Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History. Bloomsbury.
Snowdon, Peter. 2020. The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring. Verso.
Soda, Kazuhiro. 2023. Why I Make Documentaries: On Observational Filmmaking. Translated by Matt Schley. Viaindustriae Publishing.
Spiegel, Simon, Andrea Reiter, and Marcy Goldberg, eds. 2020. Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds. 1st ed. New Dimensions in Science Fiction. University of Wales Press.
Stone, Nora. 2023. How Documentaries Eent Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022. Oxford University Press.
Terry, Mark. 2020. The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change. 1st ed. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Springer International Publishing.
Thackway, Melissa, and Jean-Marie Teno. 2020. Reel Resistance – The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno. Boydell & Brewer.
Trump, Maxine. 2018. The Documentary Filmmaker’s Roadmap: A Practical Guide to Planning, Production and Distribution. Routledge.
Trump, Maxine. 2023. Making a Scene in Documentary Film: Iconic Filmmakers Discuss What Works and Why. Routledge.
Vallejo, Aida, and Ezra Winton, eds. 2020a. Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1: Methods, History, Politics. Framing Film Festivals. Palgrave Macmillan.
Vallejo, Aida, and Ezra Winton, eds. 2020b. Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 2: Changes, Challenges, Professional Perspectives. Framing Film Festivals. Springer International Publishing.
Vannini, Phillip, ed. 2020. The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video. Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge.
Warren, Shilyh J. 2020. Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary. Women and Film History International. University of Illinois Press.
Warren, Shilyh J. and Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, eds. 2025. Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century. Bloomsbury Academic.
Watson, Ryan. 2021. Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age. 1st ed. Gale eBooks. Indiana University Press.
Williams, Deane, ed. 2019. Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film. Routledge.
Winston, Brian, and Matthew Winston. 2021. The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. Routledge.
Yaqub, Nadia G., ed. 2023. Gaza on Screen. Duke University Press.
Yu, Kiki Tianqi. 2019. ‘My’ Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China. Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film. Edinburgh University Press.
Yue, Genevieve. 2021. Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality. Fordham University Press.
Zimmermann, Patricia R. 2019. Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics. Indiana University Press.