Introduction to Documentary Second Edition

The text itself is very helpful and gave me all the answers I needed in the course I was taking on documentary studies. The issue I had with this book is as an ebook, I did not get page numbers, which made it extremely difficult to follow along with what my professor assigned for reading. I made it through, but it was a lot harder than it needed to be.The content of the book was clear and well explained and very helpful overall. I would recommend this text to anyone with interest in documentary studies

I enjoyed this book. It helped me with a couple papers I had to write for a journalism and social documentary class. However, the chapters can get repetitive and it seems to touch on the same points over and over. I would recommend this book for journalism, social documentary, film/communication technologies classes.

So many people say they want to write memoirs or creative non-fiction. This book does a great job of identifying the elements that go into producing those stories in (distorted because all documentaries are not news stories but news with a twist stories) distorted methods. It's all here, voice, structure, modes. It's not a how-to book but a book that explains the physics and structure of analyzing and developing documentary versus fictional films.

Read this book as part of a class at CU Denver. Great read.

Used this book for a class. The content is comprehensive. My only complaint is that the page numbers don`t have corresponding loc numbers.

Had to read this book for a film class. It took some time to get into certain chapters.

Great textbook. bought new and delivery was on time.

Did not read. But probably I will love it.

I bought this book because it was mandatory for university course, but this book is great and I advise people to buy regardless. The book goes through all the documentary styles and forms throughout the years and goes a lot deeper too...it's been a while since I read this book but believe me it's good.

This book is very much about the idea of documentary film making, and less a history of what is done, although several good examples are mentioned, and some even given a broader analysis. Typical a reference book for studies, which certainly broadens the understanding of the issue of documentary film making.

Great book. A pleasure to read and a great contribution to documentary film theory and the role of documentary films in conema.

Very accessible.