Intelligence Work The Politics of American Documentary

Name: Intelligence Work The Politics of American Documentary
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ISBN: 9780231142076

ISBN-10: 0231142072

ISBN-13: 9780231142076

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan Kahana

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From its conception at the crossroads of cinematic entertainment and social science, American documentary has invented ways to understand the problems of modernity, capturing new varieties of social interaction and political conviction in everyday life. From slums to boardrooms, from cornfields and coal mines to cell blocks and convention halls, documentary collects the evidence of American experience, then it delivers these facts to a public sphere, where they give substance to the social imaginary and lend force to political movements from reform to revolution. Intelligence Workexplores the history and theory of this politics of truth. Covering several decades of American culture,…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Jonathan Kahana is assistant professor of cinema studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.



List of Illustration


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Intelligence Work of Documentary: Publics, Politics, Intellectuals



The Sentiment of Trust: The Documentary Front and the New Deal



National Fabric: Authorship, Textuality, and the Documentary Front



Voice-Over, Allegory, and the Pastoral in New Deal Documentary



Lyrical Tirades: New Documentary and the New Left



Revolutionary Sounds: Listening to Radical Documentary



Documentary Counterpublics: Filming Prison



The Public Sphere of Suspicion: Documentary in the New Obscurity



The Vision Thing: Documentary, Television, and the Accidental Power of the President



Tense Times: Documentary Aporias; Or, the Public Sphere of Suspicion


Notes


Filmography


Index