I have reviewed Annabelle Honess Roe's book Animated Documentary for the current issue of Animation an interdisciplinary journal 11(3).
The book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in animated documentary, offering an excellent overview of the both the history of the form and scholarship in the area, as well as suggesting a new way to categorise animated documentary, by the way in which animation is used in the documentary film. Honess Roe argues that animation can be used either as: mimetic substitution, standing in for missing footage in an imitative fashion; non-mimetic substitution, standing in for missing footage but creating new meaning through the substituted image; or evocation, in which animation expresses something which cannot be captured on film such as a feeling or psychological state. It's a fresh and useful way to look at animated documentary and these and other ideas in the book will have value for both scholars and practitioners who want to explore the form of the animated doc.