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“…In this new, updated edition, Emmy Award-winning author Sheila Curran Bernard offers: New strategies for analyzing documentary work New conversations with filmmakers including Stanley Nelson ( The Black Panthers ), Kazuhiro Soda ( Mental ), Orlando von Einsiedel ( Virunga ), and Cara Mertes (JustFilms) Discussions previously held with Susan Kim ( Imaginary Witness ), Deborah Scranton ( The War Tapes ), Alex Gibney ( Taxi to the Dark Side ), and James Marsh ( Man on Wire ).…”

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