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Author |
: Joshua Glick |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2018-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520293717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520293711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 by : Joshua Glick
Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.
Author |
: Joshua Glick |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2018-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520966918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520966910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 by : Joshua Glick
Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.
Author |
: Joshua Laurence Glick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 690 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:911076309 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 by : Joshua Laurence Glick
Author |
: Nora Stone |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2023 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197557297 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197557295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Documentaries Went Mainstream by : Nora Stone
"Documentary feature films have historically existed on the margins of mainstream media. In the U.S., enterprising documentarians have spent most of the past 60 years struggling to find a larger, broader audience for their films. Often negatively associated with longform television journalism and tedious educational programming, documentaries have rarely escaped their perceived status as "cultural vegetables" - good for you, but relatively unappealing. Recently, this marginal status has shifted quite dramatically. Nearly unthinkable a decade ago, documentary films have become reliable earners at the U.S. box office. In 2018 alone, Won't You Be My Neighbor? made almost $23 million, They Shall Not Grow Old and Free Solo each earned almost $18 million, RBG netted $14 million, and Three Identical Strangers earned $12 million. In addition to their theatrical presence, documentary films are ubiquitous on cable channels and streaming video services, which have made documentary programming a key component of their offerings to subscribers. In 2019, Netflix paid the highest price for a documentary out of the Sundance Film Festival: $10 million for Knock Down the House about four working-class women, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, running for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. Longtime documentary champion and former head of HBO Documentary Sheila Nevins said that Netflix was playing with "Monopoly money" by acquiring the documentary at such a high price, but she also granted that this was a trend across the board. Industry journalists took note. This surge in popularity had made documentaries nearly ubiquitous. In 2019, think-pieces from CBS News, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and The Ringer all simultaneously proclaimed a new Golden Age of Documentary. With broad public interest and robust investment in their production, documentary films are definitively more popular and prestigious than ever before"--
Author |
: Betsy A. McLane |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
Release |
: 2022-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501385148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501385143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New History of Documentary Film by : Betsy A. McLane
A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew. Retaining the original edition's core structure, there is added emphasis of the interplay among various approaches to documentaries and the people who made them. This edition also clearly explains the ways that interactions among the shifting forces of economics, technology, and artistry shape the form. New to this edition: - An additional chapter that brings the story of English language documentary to the present day - Increased coverage of women and people of color in documentary production - Streaming - Animated documentaries - List of documentary filmmakers, organized chronologically by the years of their activity in the field
Author |
: John Trafton |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2023-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814347782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814347789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Movie-Made Los Angeles by : John Trafton
Explores the proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood. Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state’s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of these art forms in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
Author |
: Jonathan Conlin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2024-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231556170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231556179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Met by : Jonathan Conlin
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum? This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum’s reliance on “robber barons” and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum’s troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum’s vision of shared human creativity.
Author |
: Mary Beltrán |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2022-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479810758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479810754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latino TV by : Mary Beltrán
The history of Latina/o participation and representation in American television Whose stories are told on television? Who are the heroes and heroines, held up as intriguing, lovable, and compelling? Which characters are fully realized, rather than being cardboard villains and sidekicks? And who are our storytellers? The first-ever account of Latino/a participation and representation in US English-language television, Latino TV: A History offers a sweeping study of key moments of Chicano/a and Latino/a representation and authorship since the 1950s. Drawing on archival research, interviews with dozens of media professionals who worked on or performed in these series, textual analysis of episodes and promotional materials, and analysis of news media coverage, Mary Beltrán examines Latina/o representation in everything from children’s television Westerns of the 1950s, Chicana/o and Puerto Rican activist-led public affairs series of the 1970s, and sitcoms that spanned half a century, to Latina and Latino-led series in the 2000s and 2010s on broadcast, cable, and streaming outlets, including George Lopez, Ugly Betty, One Day at a Time, and Vida. Through the exploration of the histories of Latina/o television narratives and the authors of those narratives, Mary Beltrán sheds important light on how Latina/os have been included—and, more often, not—in the television industry and in the stories of the country writ large.
Author |
: Caty Borum Chattoo |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190943417 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190943416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Story Movements by : Caty Borum Chattoo
"Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change explores the functions and public influence of social-issue documentary storytelling in the networked era. At the book's core is an argument about documentary's vital role in storytelling culture and civic practice with an impulse toward justice and equity. Intimate documentaries illuminate complex realities and stories that disrupt dominant cultural narratives and contribute new ways for publics to contemplate and engage with social challenges. Written by a documentary producer, scholar, and director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, the book features original interviews with award-winning filmmakers and field leaders to reveal the motivations and influence of some of most lauded, eye-opening stories of the evolving documentary golden age"--
Author |
: Terri Ginsberg |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 445 |
Release |
: 2020-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030300814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030300811 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinema of the Arab World by : Terri Ginsberg
This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as well as new directorial figures, and country-specific phenomena. New documentary and experimental practices are referenced and critiqued, while commercial cinema is covered both as an industrial product and as one of several instances of contestation. The volume thus showcases the breadth and depth of Arab film culture and its multilayered connections to local conditions, regional affiliations, and the tendencies and aesthetics of global cinema.