Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-284)and index.

Part I. Historical overview. Introduction / Chris Berry and Lisa Rof el ; Rethinking China's new documentary movement : engagement with the social / Lu Xinyu, translated by Tan Jia and Lisa Rofel, edited by Lisa Rofel and Chris Berry ; DV : individual filmmaking / Wu Wenguang, tran slated by Cathryn Clayton -- Part II. Documenting marginalization, or i dentities new and old. West of the tracks : history and class-conscious ness / Lu Xinyu, translated by J.X. Zhang ; Coming out of The box, marc hing as dykes / Chao Shi-Yan -- Part III. Publics, counter-publics, and alternative publics. Blowup Beijing : the city as a twilight zone / Pa ola Voci ; Watching documentary : critical public discourses and contem porary urban Chinese film clubs / Seio Nakajima ; Alternative archive : China's independent documentary culture / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel - - Part IV. Between filmmaker and subject : re-creating realism. Transla ting the unspeakable : on-screen and off-screen voices in Wu Wenguang's documentary work / Bâerâenice Reynaud ; From "public" to "private" : C hinese documentary and the logic of xianchang / Luke Robinson ; Excuse me, your camera is in my face : auteurial intervention in PRC new docum entary / Yomi Braester ; "I am one of them" and "they are my actors" : performing, witnessing, and DV image-making in plebian China / Yiman Wa ng.