| Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture After 1945 Contributor(s): Blair, Sara (Editor), Entin, Joseph B. (Editor), Nudelman, Franny (Editor) |
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ISBN: 146963869X ISBN-13: 9781469638690 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
| Dewey: 070.180 |
| LCCN: 2017036472 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present. Essays by leading scholars across disciplines collectively explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking. In addition to the editors, the volume's contributors include Michael Mark Cohen, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh Raiford, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, and Daniel Worden. |
Contributor Bio(s): Entin, Joseph B.: - Joseph B. Entin is associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.Nudelman, Franny: - Franny Nudelman is associate professor of English at Carleton University in Canada.Blair, Sara: - Sara Blair is the Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. |