Direct Cinema in America: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties is the first comprehensive study of the seminal ´direct cinema´ movement of 1960s America. Through the inquisitiveness of filmmakers such as Robert Drew, D. A. Pennebaker and Frederick Wiseman - and predicated on innovations such as portable cameras and synchronised sound - direct cinema intimately documented a never-before-screened America: from presidential campaigns, through the revellers of Woodstock, to the dispossessed subjects of Wiseman´s ´reality fictions´.