"Documentary, after all, can tell lies; and it can tell lies because it lays claim to a form of veracity which fiction doesn't."
Dai Vaughn
Visible Evidence Series
The Visible Evidence Series from the University of Minnesota Press addresses issues in documentary representation. The series started in 1997 and offers 1-2 titles per year. It is edited by Jane Gaines, Faye Ginsburg, and Michael Renov.
Volumes in the series include the following:
Volume 22: First Person Jewish, Alisa S. Lebow
Volume 21: Documentary Time: Film and Phenomenology, Malin Wahlberg
Volume 20: Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes, Jeff D. Himpele
Volume 19: Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community, Jennifer Deger
Volume 18: Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary, Abé Mark Nornes
Volume 17: F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors
Volume 16: The Subject of Documentary, Michael Renov
Volume 15: Japanese Documentary Film, Abé Mark Nornes
Volume 14: Nacho López, Mexican Photographer, John Mraz
Volume 13: Ciné-Ethnography, Jean Rouch
Volume 12: There’s No Place Like Home Video, James Moran
Volume 11: An American Family, Jeffrey Ruoff
Volume 10: Wiping the War Paint off the Lens, Beverly R. Singer
Volume 9: Women of Vision, Alexandra Juhas
Volume 8: Emile de Antonio, Douglas Kellner and Dan Streible, editors
Volume 7: States of Emergency, Patricia R. Zimmermann
Volume 6: Collecting Visible Evidence, Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov, editors
Volume 5: Feminism and Documentary, Diane Waldman and Janet Walker
Volume 4: Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, Michelle Citron
Volume 3: Trespassing through Shadows, Andrea Liss
Volume 2: Technologies of Truth, Toby Miller
Volume 1: Between the Sheets, In the Streets, Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs, editors
Volume 19: Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community, Jennifer Deger