| Description |
xiii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Film and culture
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Film and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-413) and index. |
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Includes filmography: pages 415-420. |
| Summary |
Argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals, activists, government agencies, and community groups constitutes a national-public form of culture, one that challenges traditional oppositions between official and vernacular speech, between high art and popular culture, and between academic knowledge and common sense. The author demonstrates how documentary collects and delivers the evidence of the American experience to the public sphere, where it lends force to political movements and gives substance to the social imaginary. From publisher description. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. The Intelligence Work of Documentary: Publics, Politics, Intellectuals Part I. The Sentiment of Trust: The Documentary Front and the New Deal 1. National Fabric: Authorship, Textuality, and the Documentary Front 2. Voice-Over, Allegory, and the Pastoral in New Deal Documentary Part II. Lyrical Tirades: New Documentary and the New Left 3. Revolutionary Sounds: Listening to Radical Documentary 4. Documentary Counterpublics: Filming Prison Part III. The Public Sphere of Suspicion: Documentary in the New Obscurity 5. The Vision Thing: Documentary, Television, and the Accidental Power of the President 6. Tense Times: Documentary Aporias; Or, the Public Sphere of Suspicion Notes Filmography Index. |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Documentary films. |
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United States. |
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Documentary films -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Documentary films -- Social aspects. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Kahana, Jonathan, 1966- Intelligence work. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008 (OCoLC)654738775 |
| ISBN |
9780231142076 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780231142069 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231142064 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231142072 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780231512121 e-book |
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0231512120 e-book |
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