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This book present some of my most important articles on documentary film and television between 1994-2020. Hence, the era also raised questions about the social role of documentary, including the responsibility of filmmakers to serve the public's informational needs and to honor traditional journalistic goals, such as accuracy. While televisual documentary came to be associated with certain factory values that reflected the TV industry’s vast need for programming, theatrical documentary came in this period to be seen as a much more individually crafted, courageous, human-scale response against social injustice and the abuse of power. This paper discusses how, in the first decade of the 21st century, documentary film rose to unprecedented significance in American media, succeeding not only in establishing a commercially viable niche in the filmic landscape but also having discernable impacts on public opinion, public actions and even public policy.This decade was one of unprecedented burgeoning of documentary production and consumption that entailed a great increase in output and some qualitative advances. With the creation of special audiences and virtual communities via YouTube and social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc., the development of a growing number of “interpretative communities” that began in the 1970s has accelerated and reached a new global level.

This is partly thanks to new generations of ethnic and/or female American filmmakers, but partly also because of new digital technologies that have become available in recent years and now make the production of films as well as their distribution on DVD and via internet easier and considerably less expensive.

Altogether, over the last 15 years, movies and documentaries have increasingly put their fingers on critical social and political issues ethnic minorities and women in particular have become much more visible and, most importantly, they now have their own filmmakers and scriptwriters rather than leaving the „power of discourse‟ to the old masters. veterans of the latest wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have begun to make an appearance in mainstream media. Also, most recently, films and documen-taries about the serious problems of U.S. The spectrum is remarkably broad, from Michael Moore‟s polemical „mockumentaries‟ to Clint Eastwood‟s, George Clooney‟s, or Gus Van Sant‟s critical „American‟ movies, to the films by and about ethnic „minorities‟ like Mexican Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Asian Indian Americans, et cetera. Looking at U.S.-produced films and documentaries since the turn of the mil-lennium, one notices a rapidly growing number of productions that diverge from official US politics or „mainstream‟ attitudes yet seem to be in tune with the views of statistically significant sections and/or ethnicities of the US population. (Andrew Utterson, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television) Simply put, this is one of the definitive texts on the subject, not out of place among the likes of John Grierson, Erik Barnouw, and Bill Nichols. American Documentary Film offers a valuable model for rethinking documentary and its potential contribution to debates on American identity and history. (Ken Nolley, Choice) In detailing the myriad ways in which documentaries have reflected and refracted conceptions of nationhood in the USA. The book will be a particularly important acquisition for libraries with limited holdings on documentary film. the richness of Geiger's synthesis will make it an excellent text for courses in the subject and also a resource outside the classroom. (Ian Scott, H-net, Humanities and Social Sciences online). and the new benchmark in concise appreciation of American documentary film history. (Valerie Smith, Princeton University) This is nothing less than a tremendous achievement. Rigorous yet accessible, this elegantly-written book will be of great value to the general reader and the specialist alike, and it will transform the way we consider the history, theory, and practice of documentary filmmaking. His brilliant close readings illuminate the relationship between the rhetorical, technical and stylistic elements of specific films and a broader set of contexts and concerns. In American Documentary Film, Jeffrey Geiger examines the role of documentary film in mobilizing, promoting, and even suppressing central myths of U.S.

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