Title Producing public television, producing public culture / Barry Dornfeld

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 p.) Contents Studying Public Television as American Public Culture -- Childhood on the Contested Territory of Public Television in the United States -- Negotiating Documentary Production: Authorship and Imagined Audiences -- Public Television Documentary Poetics -- Cutting across Cultures: Public Television Documentary and Representations of Otherness -- Public Television Documentary and the Mediation of American Public Culture Summary "From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself -- examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study -- one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception." "Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality. He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production. Book jacket."--Jacket Analysis Ambrose Video Antelope Films Aries, Phillipe Arlen, Michael Aufderheide, Pat Baka family Bosk, Charles Bourdieu, Pierre Briggs, Charles Cleveland Plain Dealer Ginsburg, Faye Hall, Stuart Islamic education Jocelin, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Lawson, Jennifer Marcus, George Nakayama family Newsweek review Oliveira Public Broadcasting Act Quranic school Ross, Andrew Ruby, Jay Sagan, Carl Schieffelin, Bambi Silverstone, Roger Urban, Greg Veraldi, Lorna Wild Child agency cable television cultural difference editors ethno-theory evolutionism family footage fund-raising genre theory history in Childhood interviews middlebrow multiculturalism narrative otherness production value public television subtitles symbolic capital televisual humanism title sequences visual anthropology Bibliography Filmography: p. [234-235] Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Documentary television programs -- Production and direction. Public television. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Documentary television programs -- Production and direction Public television Massmedia -- sociala aspekter -- Förenta staterna. Dokumentärfilm -- Förenta staterna. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021701039 ISBN 9780691225326 069122532X

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