Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the 21st century. It tackles key topics and debates and the shifting practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact.  24 b&w illus.

1. Handbook of Documentary – Kate Nash and Deane Williams
   
   

Section 1: Where and what is documentary (studies) in an age of epistemic crisis?

1. Saying More about Documentary? Notes on Formation, Continuity and Change in the Field of Study – John Corner
2. Next Steps: Post-Narrativity, Post-Truth (Post-Trump?) and Post-Digital is Poetry – Alexandra Juhasz
3. The Documentary Disposition – Michael Renov
   
   

Section 2: Documentary in the Anthropocene 

1. ‘We Are Dead and We Are Going to Die’: The Apocalypse Documentary – Alisa Lebow
2. Cinema of Qi: A Daoist Approach to Ecological, Sensory and Affective Cinema Through Vital Energy – Kiki Tianqi Yu
3. The Possible Worlds of VR Documentary – Mandy Rose
4. Documentary Realism in the Anthropocene – Selmin Kara
   
   

Section 3: Audio/Visualities: Polyphony, Complexity and Representation

1. Reflection, Staging and Documentary Film: The Monadic Camera-Subject – Fernão Pessoa Ramos
2. Documentary Says ‘We’: Lyrical Polyphony as Practice – Simona Schneider
3. Flee and the Failure of Empathy – Annabelle Honess Roe
   
   

Section 4: Re-viewing the Ethics and Politics of Representation 

1. Shirley Clarke’s The Connection and the Event of (Fake) Documentary – Jaimie Baron
2. Towards a History of the International Association of Documentary Filmmakers: The Congress of Algiers 1968 – Mariano Mestman
3. Recycling Indigenous Images: Archiveology and the National Film Board of Canada – Catherine Russell
4. Wang Bing’s Documentary Po/ethics of the Maoist Chaos and the Paradigm of Western Testimony: Unwitnessing, Victims, Collaborators, Followers, Cadres and Dissidents – Raya Morag
5. South Somewhere Else: Decolonising the Documentary, Cross-Cultural Collaborative Filmmaking in the Global South – Deane Williams and Antonio Traverso
   
   

Section 5: Documentary and Politics

1. The Case of Nuclear Documentary – Helen Hughes
2. Radical Civic Media: Equipe Media, Western Sahara and Global Documentary Ecologies – Ryan Watson

1. Documentary Storytelling for Social Change in the Participatory Media Age: Understanding Nonfiction’s Social Impact and Future Challenges – Caty Borum
2. Entertainment with a Purpose: Netflix and Documentary Today – Annie Goldson
3. Documentary-on-Demand: Researching Audience Engagements with (Political) Documentary on Netflix –  Kate Nash and Craig Hight
4. From Testimony to the Cinema of Action in the Video nas Aldeias Project – Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho
   
   

Section 6: Production, Distribution, Audiences: The Changing Documentary ‘Industry’

1. Utility for the Utilitarian: Documentary’s Uses for Other Kinds of Non-Fiction Film – Grace Russell
2. Documentary Funding in the Age of the Streamers – Inge Sørensen and Nick Higgins
3. Audience Engagement: Streaming Factuality in the Nordic Region – Annette Hill
   
   

Section 7: Digital Documentary Practices

1. Compilationism and Digital Media: From Documentaries to Audio-Visual Essays – Chiara Grizzaffi
2. Augmented Reality Documentary – Dale Hudson, Claudia Costa Pederson and Patty Zimmerman
3. Tilting at Windmills: The Technicizing of Empathy – Brian Winston with an introduction by Kate Nash

The Intellect Handbook of Documentary is an important go-to resource for practitioners, scholars, and students in this burgeoning field. It tackles key topics and debates including the role of documentary in post-truth culture, the rise of streaming giants, and the implications for national documentary cultures, as well as the shifting, increasingly hybrid, practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact. Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the twenty-first century.

The Handbook is broad in its scope, incorporating historical, theoretical, empirical, and practical scholarship. It is organized around ten key themes and debates: What and where is documentary (studies); documentary in an age of epistemic uncertainty; documentary histories; documentary and the archive; audio and visualities; documentary relationalities; beyond the Anthropocene; digital and documentary practices; documentary and (new) politics; and a golden age of documentary distribution and funding. Importantly, the Handbook incorporates the voices and practices of practitioners from the Global South, challenging the dominance of Western voices in documentary scholarship.