Maxine Trump has won multiple BDA awards as a director for her work on numerous commercial projects for Network TV and agency clients. She went on to direct documentaries for Sundance, TNT, BBC, Discovery, PBS, etc. Her previous feature film Musicwood was a New York Times Critics' pick, festival award winner and played on TV and in theaters around the world. Her latest film, To Kid or Not to Kid, was released in theaters and on TV worldwide to critical acclaim. She is a Sundance Institute Advisor, a visiting lecturer at New York Film Academy, University of the Arts London and Yale, and a documentary consultant for emerging filmmakers.

Foreword; 1 - Introduction - Scenes, Styles, and Genres; 2 - Observational - Truffle Hunters; 3 - Interview-Led - Trapped; 4 - Hybrid and Performative - Dick Johnson Is Dead; 5 - Poetic and Character-Led -Time; 6 - Archive - RBG; 7 - Natural History Genre - My Octopus Teacher; 8 - Competition Genre - Knock Down the House; 9 - Investigative Genre - Collective; 10 - Crime Drama Series - Tiger King; Addendum - Film List by Style and Genre; Acknowledgments; Index