“While clearly useful to Latin American film specialists, readers with other interests-in documentary filmmaking, in the socio-political forces shaping Latin America, in the nexus of cultural expression and social transformation-will also welcome The Social Documentary.”
—Film Criticism

“The Social Documentary in Latin America is a major work that brings together twenty generally high-quality essays on social and political documentaries filmed in Latin America in the 1950s-1980s.”
—Inter-American Review of Bibliography

“A collection of some twenty essays on this particular genre of film-making which, despite having been an integral part of Latin American cinema since the 1950s, has been surprisingly little-profiled in critical publications. . . . Meticulous and scholarly throughout, yet wide-ranging thematically, this is a pioneering, seminal work which should be essential reading for all students of Latin American cinema.”
—British Bulletin of Publications