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Author : William Stott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313581333
Author : William Stott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226775593
"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
Author : Astrid Böger
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 3823346636
Author : Michael Augspurger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : 0801442044
"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.
Author : Brett Abbott
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606060223
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.
Author : Stephen M. Park
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813936673
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.
Author : Lucia Ricciardelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135036133
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.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : PURD:32754076781305
Author : Paul E. Parker
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082621438X
One tool the FSA used to defend itself against political attacks was its Photographic Section, under the direction of Roy Stryker.".
Author : Lawrence W. Levine,Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520062205
Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.
Author : John E. O'Connor,Martin A. Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474281904
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.
Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859841708
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
Author : David Eldridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748629770
This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.
Author : Catherine Gander
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670550
Provides a new perspective on the documentary diversity of Muriel Rukeyser's work and influencesWinner of the inaugural Peggy O'Brien Book Prize of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS)
Author : Howells, Richard,Matson, Robert
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335228645
This is a book about visual literacy. It both advocates and equips the scholarly use of visual images as visual evidence. The visual is not mere illustration, it is the text. Enabling a rediscovery of the visual skills of the past facilitates the investigation of history and the understanding of the present. Chapters by international authorities have been specially commissioned on the use of visual evidence from painting to political prints, photographs, documentary, feature films, television, news and advertising.