CONTENTS Overview I SECTION I EVOLUTION 1.Documentary Down the Ages 3 Nirmala Rao Khadpekar 2.Defining Documentary Film 12 Henrik Juel 3.Now and Then: Conceptual Problems in Historicizing Documentary Imaging 21 Philip Rosen 4.Truth and the Indian Documentary 39 Madhusree Dutta 5.Brave New Films: Using Documentary and the Internet as Tools for Political Organization 46 Christian Christensen 6.Truth in Documentary Drama 68 Alexander Kroll 7.Super Size me and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker 76 Regina Austin SECTION II PRACTICE 8.How Documentary Filmmakers Overcame their Fear of Quoting and Learned to Employ Fair Use: A Tale of Scholarship in Action 97 Pat Aufderheide 9.The Making of Kenya, the Documentary Film 111 Steven Galvano 10.Foucault, Feminism and Critical Autobiographical Documentary: Self-Reinvention as Resistance in Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation 125 Patricia Zanski 11.Videotaped Confessions and the Genre of Documentary 136 Jessica M Silbey 12.Documentary as Social Justice Activism: The Textual and Political Strategies of Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films 156 John Haynes 13.The Impact of Documentary Film in Southern Africa with Regards to HIV/AIDS Education 175 Susan Levine 14.Fact and Fiction: A Chinese Documentary on Eastern Turkestan Terrorism 195 Yitzhak Shichor 15.Valorisation of the Video Documentary on the Ginger Commercialization Experience of NOWEFOR 219 Aurelian Mbzibain Index 227