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Cover -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Preface: The smoking truck driver -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abstract -- 1. Understanding documentary as a political text: state of the research -- 2. Methodology and context -- 2.1 Methodology -- Dialectical and historical materialism -- Hermeneutics -- 2.2 Context -- Reflections on the political origins of documentary -- Power structures in documentary film -- The political dialectic of content and form in documentary film -- 3. The cinematic means as loci of power structures -- 3.1 Social and political power structures in "Even Though My Land is Burning" and "Not Just Your Picture" -- "Even Though My Land is Burning" -- "Not Just Your Picture" -- 3.2 Documentary characters: choice of protagonists as a political narrative -- The political dialectic of characters and society -- "Hoop Dreams" -- "Welcome to Leith" -- Individualism and the neo-liberal structure -- "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" -- "Man on Wire" -- "Love Me" -- Characters and society in my practical work -- Conclusion -- 3.3 Reflexivity and participatory film -- "I'm harboring a murderer in my film" - Reflexivity and participation as content/form dialectic in the films of Avi Mograbi -- "Once I Entered a Garden" -- "Between Fences" -- "Z32" -- "I am a refugee and a filmmaker, and you ask me to choose which?" - experiences of reflexivity and participation in my practical work -- "Even Though My Land is Burning" -- "Not Just Your Picture" -- "Limbo" -- 3.4 The power structures of the interview -- Historical emergence of the interview form -- Aesthetic and form of the interview -- Talking Head -- Vox Pop -- Conversation, dialogue or pseudo-dialogue -- The Masked Interview -- Theoretical approaches to different interview forms -- "The Fog of War" -- The power relations of interviews -- Interviews in my practical work.