The Documentary Site

(formerly Reality Film)

Wallflower Press

Wallflower Press is one of the more progressive publishers out there, specializing in "cinema and the moving image."

Short Cuts

Wallflower's Short Cuts series provides quick overviews to many subjects in film studies. One title so far addresses documentary:

• Documentary: The Margins of Reality, by Paul Ward.

Nonfictions Series

The Nonfictions series, with Brian Winston as its general editor, focuses exclusively on documentary in its various forms. Upcoming titles in the series include the following:

• Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties, Dave Saunders
• Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice, edited by Alan Grossman and Áine O'Brien
• The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture, edited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas
• Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television, Timothy Boon
• Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch, edited by Joram ten Brink

My list for watching at least one documentary a week for an entire year