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Documentary Expression and Thirties America
Author: William Stott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986-06-15
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780226775593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for it embraces (among much else) radical journalism, academic sociology, the esthetics of photography, Government relief programs, radio broadcasting, the literature of social work, the rhetoric of political persuasion, and the effect of all these on the traditional arts of literature, painting, theater and dance. The great merit of Mr. Stott's study lies precisely in its wide-ranging view of this complex terrain."—Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review "[Scott] might be called the Aristotle of documentary. No one before him has so comprehensively surveyed the achievement of the 1930s, suggesting what should be admired, what condemned, and why; no one else has so persuasively furnished an aesthetic for judging the form."—Times Literary Supplement
People's Lives, Public Images
Author: Astrid Böger
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783823346630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Economy of Abundant Beauty
Author: Michael Augspurger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780801442049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"We have made a breakthrough from an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance," Henry Luce noted more than twenty years after founding Fortune magazine. "Can we make the breakthrough from an economy of abundance to an economy of abundant beauty?" Michael Augspurger's attractively illustrated book examines Fortune's surprising role in American struggles over artistic and cultural authority during the Depression and the Second World War. The elegantly designed magazine, launched in the first months of the Depression, was not narrowly concerned with moneymaking and finance. Indeed the magazine displayed a remarkable interest in art, national culture, and the "literature of business." Fortune's investment in art was not simply an attempt to increase the social status of business. It was, Augspurger argues, an expression of the editors' sincere desire to develop a moral capitalism. Optimistically believing that the United States had entered a new economic era, the liberal business minds behind Fortune demanded that material progress be translated into widespread leisure and artistic growth. A thriving national culture, the magazine believed, was as crucial a sign of economic success as material abundance and technological progress. But even as the "enlightened" business ideology of Fortune grew into the economic common sense of the 1950s, the author maintains, the magazine's cultural ideals struggled with and eventually succumbed to the professional criticism of the postwar era.
Engaged Observers
Author: Brett Abbott
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1606060228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical survey of nine documentary photographers who were at the cutting edge of this form of journalism during the second half of the 20th century, 'Engaged Observers' shows how since the sixties photographers such as Leonard Freed & Susan Meiselas have challenged the conventional objectivity of the newsroom.
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age
Author: Lucia Ricciardelli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1135036136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess the impact of new visual technologies on the construction of history. This book investigates the manner in which this contemporary Western "crisis" in historical narrative is produced by a larger epistemological shift in visual culture. Ricciardelli uses the theme of war as depicted in these directors’ films to focus her study and look at the model(s) of national identity that Burns, Morris, and Moore shape through their depictions of US military actions. She examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative structure of documentary film and the shaping of historical consciousness through cinematic representation.
American Bicentennial Photography and Film Project, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Documenting America, 1935-1943
Author: Lawrence W. Levine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780520062207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.
American History/American Film
Author: John E. O'Connor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1474281907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.
The Pan American Imagination
Author: Stephen M. Park
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0813936675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American modernists who challenged the body of knowledge being produced about Latin America, crossing the disciplinary boundaries of academia as well as the formal boundaries of artistic expression—from literary texts and travel writing to photography, painting, and dance. Park invests in an interdisciplinary approach, which he frames as a politically resistant intellectual practice, using it not only to examine the historical phenomenon of Pan Americanism but also to explore the implications for current transnational scholarship.
