U.S. documentary culture after 1945 Martin, Jonathan 1977- editor. Gillion, Daniel Q. 1979- editor. Nudelman, Franny editor. Kahana, Jonathan 1966- contributor. Tsika, Noah 1983- contributor. text bibliography ncu 2018 monographic eng

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251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. 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. edited by Sara Blair, Joseph B. Entin, and Franny Nudelman. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Documentary mass media United States History 20th century Documentary mass media United States History 21st century Documentary mass media Political aspects Arts Experimental methods Medios de comunicación documentales Estados Unidos Siglo XXI Medios de comunicación documentales Aspectos políticos P 96 R384 2018 070.1/80973 9781469638683 (cloth: alk. paper) 1469638681 (cloth: alk. paper) 9781469638690 (pbk : alk. paper) 146963869X (pbk : alk. paper) NcU/DLC 170801 20251103173227.0 eng