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'Drawing on interviews with leading industry sources and containing discussion of over 200 documentaries, Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres brings to life over a century of documentary making and connects it to international debates in criticism, theory and history.

'Documentary is the oldest continuous form of screen production in Australia, and today plays a pivotal part in our creative industries. This incisive book covers the development of documentary in Australia from the early days of cinema to the coming of television and to the digital environment.

'Addressing the issues facing today's documentary makers, the authors explore the role of the documentary in shaping the nation and forming the 'imagined community'.' (From the publisher's website.)

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Contents: 1. The Documentary Field; 2. Braided Channels - Documentary Voice; 3. Cinematic Scenes of Life; 4. New Waves of Documentary; 5. Australian Television Takes On Independent Documentary; 6. Documentary and the Film Finance Corporation; 7. Changing Relations: The AFC, Film Australia and Documentary in the Era of the FFC; 8. Australian Broadcasting Cultures and Recent Documentary Practice; 9. Documentary and the Edge of Reality; 10. Documentary and Civics; 11. Documentary Present and Future.
Dedication: For Andrew and Isabelle, Darby and Finola, Timothy and Patrick

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Showing Australia Itself : Australian Documentary : History, Practices, and Genres by Trish Fitzsimons, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson Trent Griffiths , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September no. 64 2012;
— Review of Australian Documentary : History, Practices and Genres Trish FitzSimons , Patrick Laughren , Dugald Williamson , 2011 multi chapter work criticism

Blurred Boundaries Sylvia Lawson , 2011 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2011;
— Review of Australian Documentary : History, Practices and Genres Trish FitzSimons , Patrick Laughren , Dugald Williamson , 2011 multi chapter work criticism ; Snowtown Shaun Grant , 2010 single work film/TV

Genre Drift Ina Bertrand , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 331 2011; (p. 50)
— Review of Australian Documentary : History, Practices and Genres Trish FitzSimons , Patrick Laughren , Dugald Williamson , 2011 multi chapter work criticism

Non-Fiction Fiona Capp , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 26 March 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of When Horse Became Saw : A Family's Journey Through Autism Anthony Macris , 2011 single work autobiography ; The Happy Life : The Search for Contentment in the Modern World David Malouf , 2011 single work essay ; Australian Documentary : History, Practices and Genres Trish FitzSimons , Patrick Laughren , Dugald Williamson , 2011 multi chapter work criticism