New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a contemporary look at documentary and fresh and challenging ways of theorising the non-fiction film. This engaging textbook brings the study of documentary up to date by examining critical issues of performance, gender, authorship and spectatorship and suggests how these are important to an understanding of documentary cinema.Areas addressed include:

• key texts such as Zapruder’s film of Kennedy’s assassination, Shoah, The Leader,His Driver and theDriver’sWife and The Atomic Café ;

• the work of filmmakers such as Emile de Antonio, Chris Marker, Nicholas Barker, Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen and Patrick Keiller;

• an analysis of key aspects of documentary such as the use of voice-over and archive, American cinéma vérité, docusoaps and political image-making;

• an innovative examination of the importance of performance to documentary;

• interviews with contemporary documentary filmmakers.

The author

Stella Bruzzi is Senior Lecturer in Filmand Television at RoyalHolloway College, London. She is the author of Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies (Routledge 1997).