Addressing the paradox of documentary.

A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead

This groundbreaking edited collection is the first major study to explore the intersection between cognitive theory and documentary film studies, focusing on a

Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholarship and knowl

This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers