Remaking reality : U.S. documentary culture after 1945 /
edited by Sara Blair, Joseph B. Entin, and Franny Nudelman.
- 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking.
Documentary mass media--History--United States--20th century. Documentary mass media--History--United States--21st century. Documentary mass media--Political aspects. Arts--Experimental methods. Medios de comunicación documentales --Estados Unidos --Siglo XXI Medios de comunicación documentales --Aspectos políticos