| Description |
1 online resource (xi unnumbered pages, 275 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-262) and index. |
| Summary |
What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of US history, culture, politics, and national identity? This book examines how documentary films have contributed to the American public sphere. |
| Contents |
Novelties, spectacles and the documentary impulse. Case studies: Blacksmith scene (1893), Buffalo dance (1894), Mess call (1896) -- Virtual travels and the tourist gaze. Case study: Nanook of the north (1922) -- Serious play: documentary and the avant-garde. Case study: Manhatta (1921) -- Activism and advocacy: the Depression era. Case study: The plow that broke the plains (1936) -- Idea-weapons: documentary propaganda. Case study: The Memphis Belle (1944) -- 'Uncontrolled' situations: direct cinema. Case study: Grey Gardens (1975) -- Relative truths: documentary and postmodernity. Case study: Tongues untied (1989) -- Media wars: documentary dispersion. Case study: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Documentary films. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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History. |
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Documentary films -- United States -- History.
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United States -- In motion pictures.
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
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National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geiger, Jeffrey. American documentary film. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011 0748621474 (OCoLC)743246572 |
| ISBN |
9780748629466 (electronic book) |
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0748629467 (electronic book) |
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9780748621477 (hardback) |
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0748621474 (hardback) |
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9780748621484 (paperback) |
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0748621482 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786613221599 |
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