The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary

Joshua Glick is Associate Professor of Film & Electronic Arts at Bard College. He is the author of Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History. He also co-curated the exhibition, Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen, at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Professor Glick's current book project explores how documentary on the left and right of the political spectrum reshaped the media industries and created oppositional visions of social change in an era of polarization.Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University. Among her many published works are Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction and Reclaiming Fair Use (with Peter Jaszi). She has been a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, and among her awards are the International Communication Association's Communication Research as an Agent of Change Award and theInternational Documentary Association's Preservation and Scholarship Award.

• Introduction: Locating American Documentary: Politics, Infrastructure, Practice, by Joshua Glick and Patricia Aufderheide Section I: Dynamics of Infrastructure Chapter 1: The Political Documentary Film Essay is Infrastructural, by Alexandra Juhasz Chapter 2: The Political Economy of Documentary Archives, by Josh Shepperd and Laura Garbes Chapter 3: Documentary Circuits: The Distribution of Documentary Film in the United States, by Nora Stone Chapter 4: The Documentary Commons: A Critical Challenge to Cinema's Impact Frameworks, by Angela J. Aguayo Section II: Public Policy, Public Media Chapter 5: Copyright, Self-Censorship, Fair Use, and Documentary Film, by Patricia Aufderheide Chapter 6: Regulating Documentary: Television, Conservative Activism, and the Expressive Power of Policy, by Allison Perlman Chapter 7: What Does Democracy Look Like? Documentary and the Demos in Public Television, by Laurie Ouellette Chapter 8: Government Documentary During the Cold War: The United States Information Agency's Global Outreach, by Hadi Gharabaghi and Bret Vukoder Section III: Movements for Equity and JusticeChapter 9: By, About and For: Contemporary Indigenous Documentary, by Colleen Thurston, Choctaw, and Erica Cusi Wortham Chapter 10: Elizabeth Mitchell, Documentary, and the Invention of the Black Cinematic Atlantic, by Ellen C. Scott Chapter 11: The Art of Advocacy: Mexican American Documentary, by Carlos Francisco Parra Chapter 12: Absence and Presence in Post-Stonewall Queer Documentary: Queer Radicalness, Assimilation, and the Gray Space Between, by Ronald Gregg Chapter 13: From Observed Patient to Filmmaker: Disability and Documentary in the United States, by Linnéa Hussein Chapter 14: Documentary as Ecocinema: Form, Ethics, and Environmental Justice, by Kristi McKim Chapter 15: Racial Affect and Populist Epistemologies: Citizens United and Conservative Documentary, by Michael M. Reinhard Section IV: The Politics of Performance Chapter 16: Character Driven Documentary, by Chris Cagle Chapter 17: Deep Fake: Borat's Subsequent Return to America in a Post-Truth Era, by Leshu Torchin Chapter 18: The Case for Abolishing True Crime, by Brett Story and Pooja Rangan Section V: Documentary Across MediaChapter 19: Documentary's Longue Durée (Elaborated): Beginnings, Formations, Genealogies, by Charles Musser Chapter 20: Black Tourism: Home Movies as Resistance, by Elizabeth Patton Chapter 21: Reframing Asian American Documentary Media, by Denise Khor Chapter 22: Environments of Race and Place: The Urgencies and Enmeshments of Participatory Community Media, by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann Section VI: Technologies of Immersion and AugmentationChapter 23: Situating the Interactive and Immersive Documentary, by William Uricchio Chapter 24: XR and Documentary: Affinities and Resistance, by Julia Scott-StevensonChapter 25: Documentary and Wildlife, by Scott MacDonaldChapter 26: Another Way of Viewing: Documentary and the Digital Humanities, by Lauren Tilton Epilogue: Insights From Practitioners, by Patricia Aufderheide

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