Notes on contributors; Foreword, Bill Nichols; Barbara Kopple: A Career of Personal Crises and Creative Tensions, Jeff Jaeckle; Historical Contexts & Cultural Commentary; Harlan County USA and the Documentary Form: A 40-Year Retrospective, E. Ann Kaplan; American Dream in God’s Country: Odysseys in Documentary, Hospitality, Place, Paula Rabinowitz; The Kopple Effect: Women Directing Documentaries, Tom Zaniello; Gender Agency: Harlan County USA, Shut Up & Sing, and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, Kate Hearst; The Peekskill Projects: Race, Riots, and Paul Robeson, Jeff Jaeckle; Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple, Heather McIntosh; Technique: Interviews, Music, Funding, and Fiction Filmmaking; Fallen Champ: Poetics of the Documentary Interview, Leger Grindon; Which Side Are You On: An Intersectional Approach to Music in Three Films by Barbara Kopple, Augusta Palmer; Blurring Lines and Intersecting Realities in Barbara Kopple’s Fictional Work, Susan Ryan; Kopple’s Work Within the Changing Documentary Business Ecology, Patricia Aufderheide; Exposing the Lethal Gaze in Shut Up & Sing and Running from Crazy, Jaimie Baron; Impacts: Critical Reception and Ongoing Influence; Barbara Kopple: Acolyte to Leading Light, Betsy A. McLane; Kopple & Her Critics, Gregory Brown; Afterword: Getting Inside, John Corner