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Remaking reality : U.S. documentary culture after 1945 / edited by Sara Blair, Joseph B. Entin, and Franny Nudelman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469638683 (cloth: alk. paper)
  • 1469638681 (cloth: alk. paper)
  • 9781469638690 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 146963869X (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.1/80973
LOC classification:
  • P 96 R384 2018
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) P 96 R384 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000138290

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.

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