Stranger Than Fiction: Michael Moore, Barbara Kopple, Errol Morris, and the New Documentary Filmmakers

by Emanuel Levy

The success of American documentaries over the recent past has prompted social critics and film commentators to herald the renaissance of a vibrantly innovative nonfiction cinema. The past decade alone has seen Roger and Me, Paris Is Burning, Hoop Dreams, Bowling for Columbine, Crumb, and Inconvenient Truth. The book chronicles the careers and works of all those in the vanguard of a movement that shows no signs of slowing down. Michael Moore, Barbara Kopple, Errol Morris, Michael Apted, James Klein, Al Gore, and many others are featured in this groundbreaking study, which also includes valuable information on Oscar-winning documentaries.

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First published July 1, 2008