New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from - as opposed to being conflated with - the documentary film in its multiple historical guises; a premise explored in case-studies of films by distinguished artists and filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Ben Rivers, Chantal Akerman, Ben Russell Pat Collins and Gideon Koppel). The book builds a case for this new category of film, calling it the 'new nonfiction film,' and argues, in the process, that this kind of film works to dismantle the old distinctions between fiction and documentary film and therefore the axioms of Film and Cinema Studies as a discipline of study. New Nonfiction Film explores the work of Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, and Abbas Kiarostami, among other boundary-pushing artists and directors. Combining close analysis with philosophical speculation, Dara Waldron shows how a growing number of films are orbiting the categories of both fiction and documentary, yet resisting the gravitational pull of each, in search of new trajectories. Questions of ethics, aesthetics, knowledge, and subjectivity all come to bear in this valuable contribution to documentary studies.