Fall 2008

Documentaries on the Campaign Trail Fall 2008

In this issue, we take stock of the role that documentary filmmakers have played in the presidential election campaign.

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Features

Feature | Fall 2008

Politics and Poetics: A Brief History of Argentine Documentary Cinema

By Richard Shpuntoff

Festivals

Feature | Fall 2008

A Well-Tuned Arts Engine: Celebrating 10 Years of Social-Issue Documentaries

By David Becker

Feature | Fall 2008

Remembering RFK: SilverDocs Holds 40th Anniversary Screening of Guggenheim Documentary

By Barry Hampe

Short Films

Feature | Fall 2008

JFK Redux: Robert Drew's 'President to Remember'

By Ron Sutton

Columns

Column | Fall 2008

Notes from the Reel World: The Board President's Column, Fall 2008

By diane estelle Vicari

Notes from the Reel World

Column | Fall 2008

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2008

By Tom White

Fast Foreword

Column | Fall 2008

Marilyn Agrelo's 'Mad Hot Ballroom'

By Bill Guttentag

Playback

Column | Fall 2008

Rhetorical Questioning: An Academic View of Political Documentaries

By Betsy McLane

Book Reviews Reality Ink

Column | Fall 2008

Beyond Belief: Bill Maher Searches for God in 'Religulous'

By Tom White

Actuality on the Air Docs about Faith

Column | Fall 2008

Steal This Vote! Behind the Curtain of American Elections

By Cathleen Rountree

Docs about Politics Docs on Disc

Column | Fall 2008

Short Shots: Brave New Films Makes Quick Work of Issue-Driven Videos

By Tamara Krinsky

Short Films

Column | Fall 2008

Conventional Wisdom: How to Cover a Political Confab

By Tamara Krinsky

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