Recomended Reading
Documentary Filmmakers Speak
(Allworth Press, 2002)
Liz Stubbs
Stubbs interviews 13 filmmakers, from cinema verité pioneers Albert Maysles (Salesman) and D. A. Pennebaker (Don't Look Back) to newer practitioners Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Nick Broomfield (Kurt and Courtney), to the genre's golden boy, Ken Burns. The filmmakers share their observations on topics such as storytelling techniques, funding, ethical boundaries, and what separates their genre from fictional films, as well as insights into what makes the documentary one of cinema's most exciting and rapidly growing forms.
New Documentary: A Critical Introduction
(Routledge, 2000)
Stella Bruzzi
In a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in the US, Britain and Europe, Bruzzi discusses genres, filmmakers, issues, the relationship between newer examples of the genre and the older and more established canon of documentary. She also explores how issues of gender identity, queer theory, performance, "race" and spectatorship are important to our understanding of contemporary documentary.
Doing Documentary Work
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
Robert Coles
In Doing Documentary Work, Robert Coles (a child psychiatrist whose series of books on children won him a Pulitzer Prize) turns his attention to the ethics of the documentary in literature, photography and cinema. Raising in particular the question of authenticity versus manipulation, Coles offers a critical discussion of the nature of documentary work as well as the practices of some of its most revered practitioners.
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
(Wayne State University Press, 1998)
Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, editors
Essays by 27 film scholars representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, each focusing on one or two important documentaries and engaging questions of ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation in relationship to them.
Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries
(University of California Press, 2000)
Brian Winston
Looking at recent crises of confidence in public service broadcasting and the controversy surrounding "docusoaps," Winston's Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries, first distributed by the British Film Institute, provides a foundational study of ethics and the documentary, and is one of the first major and comprehensive studies on the ethics of documentary filmmaking.
Plug In Turn On: A Guide to Internet Filmmaking
(Marion Boyers Publishers, 2004)
Tomas Rawlings and Ana Kronschnabl
A step-by-step instruction manual for aspiring Internet filmmakers of all levels of experience by the creators of www.plugincinema.com, a site dedicated to showing, discussing and teaching about films made for the Internet.
FURTHER READING
Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. University of California Press, 1997.

Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. Oxford University Press, 1993.

B. J. Bullert, Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film. Rutgers University Press, 1997.

John D.H. Downing, Film & Politics In The Third World. Autonomedia, 2004.

John Downing, ed. Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. Sage Publications, 2001.

Chris Jones, The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint. Continuum, 2003.

Emanuel Levy. Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York University Press, 1999.

Naficy Hamid , ed. Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place. Routledge, 1999.

Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary. Indiana University Press, 2001.

Bill Nichols, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary. Indiana University Press, 1991.

Patrice Petro, ed. Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video. Indiana University Press, 1995.

M. Renov & E. Suderburg, eds. Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

M. Renov, ed. Theorizing Documentary. Routledge, 1993.

William Rothman. Documentary Film Classics. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Dai Vaughan, For Documentary: Twelve Essays. University of California Press, 1999.