Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, and founder-director of its Center for Social Media. Her books include Documentary: A Very Short Introduction, The Daily Planet, and Communications Policy in the Public Interest.
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Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's... SEE MORE