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Article: Reviewing orthodoxies.(A New History of Documentary Film)(Book review)
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A NEW HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM
BY JACK C. ELLIS AND BETSY A. MCLANE
NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2005
385 PP./$19.95 (SB)
Now is undoubtedly a boom-time for the documentary. The popularity and critical success of the theatrically released documentary are all around: HBO and the Sundance Channel have both invested heavily in funding and acquiring new documentaries for their schedules, and the technological innovations in camera and editing equipment have massively lowered the threshold for entry into documentary production. On the scholarly front, the last fifteen years have also witnessed the emergence of documentary studies as a ...