Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video

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Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (new/expanded edition) Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, eds. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2013. Paper, 600 pages $34.95

What makes the new and expanded edition of Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski's Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video so engaging is that each essay (whether from the original text, produced in 1998, or added later) provides academically sound insights not only on thirty-one different films, but also about their directors and how their production exposes, on many levels (professional, political, and personal), the identities of these great cinematic anthropologists. The book, when discussing feature-length documentaries, mockumentaries, reality television programs, or what would generally be considered avant-garde cinema, successfully recognizes both the theoretical significance of the films as well as the directors' agendas, a major component of the filmmaking process that often gets lost in conversations about "non-fiction" cinema.

As the editors state, "We argued in 1998 that interest in documentary was the most intense it had been since the 1930s. Things have changed only to the extent that documentary has become even more popular and controversial as.