Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Foreword xiii
6. CHAPTER 1 Barbara Kopple: A Career of Personal Crises and Creative Tensions 1
7. Part I Historical Contexts and Cultural Commentary
8. CHAPTER 2 Harlan County, USA and the Documentary Form: A Forty-year Retrospective 15
9. CHAPTER 3 American Dream in God’s Country: Odysseys in Documentary, Hospitality, Place 31
10. CHAPTER 4 The Kopple Effect: Women Directing Documentaries 51
11. CHAPTER 5 Gender Agency: Harlan County, USA, Shut Up & Sing!, and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous 69
12. CHAPTER 6 The Peekskill Projects: Race, Riots, and Paul Robeson 90
13. CHAPTER 7 Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple 104
14. Part II Technique: Interviews, Music, Funding, and Fiction Filmmaking
15. CHAPTER 8 Fallen Champ: Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview 121
16. CHAPTER 9 Which Side Are You On? An Intersectional Approach to Music in Three Films by Barbara Kopple 141
17. CHAPTER 10 Blurring Lines and Intersecting Realities in Barbara Kopple’s Fictional Work 159
18. CHAPTER 11 Kopple’s Work within the Changing Documentary Business Ecology 178
19. CHAPTER 12 Exposing the Lethal Gaze in Shut Up & Sing! and Running from Crazy 193
20. Part III Impacts: Critical Reception and Ongoing Influence
21. CHAPTER 13 Barbara Kopple: Acolyte to Leading Light 205
22. CHAPTER 14 Kopple and her Critics 225
23. Afterword: Getting Inside 240
24. Index 246