Contemporary documentary

Contemporary Documentary covers documentary film, television, video, and new media. The essays address the emerging forms, popular genres, and innovative approaches of the digital era. The anthology highlights geographically and thematically diverse examples of documentaries that have expanded the scope and impact of non-fiction cinema and captured the attention of global audiences over the past three decades. It also explores the experience of documentary today, with its changing dynamics of production, collaboration, distribution, and exhibition, and its renewed political and cultural relevance. The twelve chapters - featuring engaging case studies and written from a wide range of perspectives including film theory, social theory, ethics, new media, and experience design.

Introduction: Situating Contemporary Documentary / Selmin Kara and Daniel Marcus -- FORMS, GENRES, INNOVATIONS. Lying to Be Real: The Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Docufictions / Ohad Landesman -- The Mockumentary / Craig Hight -- Animated Documentary / Annabelle Honess Roe -- Producing the Crowdsourced Documentary: The Implications of Storytelling and Technology / Heather McIntosh -- Designed Experience in Interactive Documentaries / Siobhan O'Flynn -- Indigenous Documentary Media / Pamela Wilson -- DOCUMENTARY IN NEW CONTEXTS. True Life: The Voice of Television Documentary / Laurie Ouellette -- Interrogating the Media: Errol Morris in the Information Age / Kris Fallon -- Documentary and the Survival of the Film Auteur: Agnès Varda, Werner Herzog, and Spike Lee / Helen Hughes -- The Ethics of Appropriation: "Misusing" the Found Document in Suitcase of Love and Shame and A Film Unfinished / Jaimie Baron -- Documentary, Multi-Platform Production, and Cosmopolitan Dialogues / Ib Bondebjerg -- Documentary and Video Activism / Daniel Marcus.