Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. How Can We Define Documentary Film?; 2. What Are the Constituent Elements of Documentary Film?; 3. What Ethical Issues Arise in Documentary Filmmaking?; 4. What Characterizes the Voice of Documentary and Its Relation to Storytelling?; 5. What Are the Rhetorical and Poetic Contributions to Documentary?; 6. How Did Documentary Filmmaking Get Started?; 7. How Has Documentary Represented the Past?; 8. What Are the Expository and Performative Modes of Documentary?; 9. What Are the Observational and Participatory Modes of Documentary?; 10. What Are the Poetic and Reflexive Modes of Documentary?; 11. How Did the Nation-State Affect Documentary's Approach to Social Issues?; 12. How Have Documentaries Responded to Identity Politics and Social Issues?; 13. How Can We Write Effectively about Documentary Films?; 14. I Want to Make a Documentary. How Do I Start?; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index