| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Let there be light and the military talking picture / Jonathan Kahana and Noah Tsika -- Death in life : documenting survival after Hiroshima / Franny Nudelman -- I saw it! The photographic witness of Barefoot Gen / Laura Wexler -- Speculative ecology : Rachel Carson's environmentalist documentaries / Daniel Worden -- Participatory documentary : recording the sound of equality in the southern civil rights movement / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- After the fact : postwar dissent and the art of documentary / Sara Blair -- Working photography : labor documentary and documentary labor in the neoliberal age / Joseph B. Entin -- Counterdocuments : undocumented youth activists, documentary media, and the politics of visibility / Rebecca M. Schreiber -- At Berkeley : documenting the university in an age of austerity / Michael Mark Cohen and Leigh Raiford |
| Summary |
After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous rethinking of established documentary practices and histories. Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era - the atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the financial collapse of 2008 - documentary makers increasingly reconceived reality as the site of social conflict and saw their work as instrumental to struggles for justice. Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this text is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts -- Experimental methods.
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Documentary mass media -- Political aspects
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Documentary mass media -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Documentary mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Arts -- Experimental methods
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Documentary mass media
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tsika, Noah, 1983- contributor.
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Kahana, Jonathan, 1966-2019, contributor
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Nudelman, Franny, editor
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Entin, Joseph B., editor
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Blair, Sara, editor
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| ISBN |
9781469638706 |
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1469638703 |
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9781469638713 |
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1469638711 |
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