This book is a ‘time-capsule’ of documentary film scholarship in the period between 2007 and 2016. Various topics are explored, including trauma studies, documentary sound, form and activism; the rise of independent Chinese documentary; and indigenous representation. It was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film.

Introduction 1. ‘Testimony in the umbra of trauma: film and video portraits of survival’ 2. The field of digital documentary: a challenge to documentary theorists 3. Two Laws still: notes on resonance 4. Documenting the political: some issues 5. Reassembling the nation: Iraq in Fragments and the acoustics of occupation 6. ‘Documentary Filmmaking in the Postmodern Age: Errol Morris & The Fog of Truth’ 7. Interactive documentary: setting the field 8. What is documentary mise-en-scène? Coutinho’s mannerism and Salles’s ‘mauvaise conscience’ 9. The poetic mode as depiction: sense-value and Gideon Koppel’s sleep furiously 10. Personal camera as public intervention: remembering the Cultural Revolution in Chinese independent documentary films