Introduction: Locating American Documentary: Politics, Infrastructure, Practice, by Joshua Glick and Patricia Aufderheide
Section I: Dynamics of Infrastructure
Chapter 1: The Political Documentary Film Essay is Infrastructural, by Alexandra Juhasz
Chapter 2: The Political Economy of Documentary Archives, by Josh Shepperd and Laura Garbes
Chapter 3: Documentary Circuits: The Distribution of Documentary Film in the United States, by Nora Stone
Chapter 4: The Documentary Commons: A Critical Challenge to Cinema's Impact Frameworks, by Angela J. Aguayo
Section II: Public Policy, Public Media
Chapter 5: Copyright, Self-Censorship, Fair Use, and Documentary Film, by Patricia Aufderheide
Chapter 6: Regulating Documentary: Television, Conservative Activism, and the Expressive Power of Policy, by Allison Perlman
Chapter 7: What Does Democracy Look Like? Documentary and the Demos in Public Television, by Laurie Ouellette
Chapter 8: Government Documentary During the Cold War: The United States Information Agency's Global Outreach, by Hadi Gharabaghi and Bret Vukoder
Section III: Movements for Equity and Justice
Chapter 9: By, About and For: Contemporary Indigenous Documentary, by Colleen Thurston, Choctaw, and Erica Cusi Wortham
Chapter 10: Elizabeth Mitchell, Documentary, and the Invention of the Black Cinematic Atlantic, by Ellen C. Scott
Chapter 11: The Art of Advocacy: Mexican American Documentary, by Carlos Francisco Parra
Chapter 12: Absence and Presence in Post-Stonewall Queer Documentary: Queer Radicalness, Assimilation, and the Gray Space Between, by Ronald Gregg
Chapter 13: From Observed Patient to Filmmaker: Disability and Documentary in the United States, by Linnea Hussein
Chapter 14: Documentary as Ecocinema: Form, Ethics, and Environmental Justice, by Kristi McKim
Chapter 15: Racial Affect and Populist Epistemologies: Citizens United and Conservative Documentary, by Michael M. Reinhard
Section IV: The Politics of Performance
Chapter 16: Character Driven Documentary, by Chris Cagle
Chapter 17: Deep Fake: Borat's Subsequent Return to America in a Post-Truth Era, by Leshu Torchin
Chapter 18: The Case for Abolishing True Crime, by Brett Story and Pooja Rangan
Section V: Documentary Across Media
Chapter 19: Documentary's Longue Duree (Elaborated): Beginnings, Formations, Genealogies, by Charles Musser
Chapter 20: Black Tourism: Home Movies as Resistance, by Elizabeth Patton
Chapter 21: Reframing Asian American Documentary Media, by Denise Khor
Chapter 22: Environments of Race and Place: The Urgencies and Enmeshments of Participatory Community Media, by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Section VI: Technologies of Immersion and Augmentation
Chapter 23: Situating the Interactive and Immersive Documentary, by William Uricchio
Chapter 24: XR and Documentary: Affinities and Resistance, by Julia Scott-Stevenson
Chapter 25: Documentary and Wildlife, by Scott MacDonald
Chapter 26: Another Way of Viewing: Documentary and the Digital Humanities, by Lauren Tilton
Epilogue: Insights From Practitioners, by Patricia Aufderheide
