Intelligence Work - The Politics of American Documentary

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Kahana Klappentext Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary! proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals! activists! government agencies! and community groups constitutes a national-public form of culture! one that challenges traditional oppositions between official and vernacular speech! between high art and popular culture! and between academic knowledge and common sense. Placing iconic images and the work of celebrated filmmakers next to overlooked and rediscovered productions! Kahana demonstrates how documentary collects and delivers the evidence of the American experience to the public sphere! where it lends force to political movements and gives substance to the social imaginary. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates how documentary serves as a cultural laboratory in the thought and practice of American democracy. This book places iconic images and the work of celebrated filmmakers next to overlooked and rediscovered productions and proves the pliability of documentary's function for American popular intelligence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Intelligence Work of Documentary: Publics! Politics! IntellectualsPart I. The Sentiment of Trust: The Documentary Front and the New Deal1. National Fabric: Authorship! Textuality! and the Documentary Front2. Voice-Over! Allegory! and the Pastoral in New Deal DocumentaryPart II. Lyrical Tirades: New Documentary and the New Left3. Revolutionary Sounds: Listening to Radical Documentary4. Documentary Counterpublics: Filming PrisonPart III. The Public Sphere of Suspicion: Documentary in the New Obscurity 5. The Vision Thing: Documentary! Television! and the Accidental Power of the President6. Tense Times: Documentary Aporias; Or! the Public Sphere of SuspicionNotesFilmographyIndex ...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Kahana
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2008
• EAN: 9780231142076
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14207-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Central / national / federal government