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Documentary Expression and Thirties America

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ISBN-10: 0226775593

ISBN-13: 9780226775593

Edition: 1986

Authors: William Stott

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"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…    
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Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Documentary
What Is Documentary?
Documentary: The Primacy of Feeling
The Two Documents and How They Work
Social Documentary
The Two Persuasions Direct Vicarious
What Documentary Treats
The Documentary Motive and the Thirties
The Central Media
The New Deal FDR WPA
A Documentary Imagination
The Documentary Nonfiction of the Thirties
Popularized Case-Worker Studies
Social Science Writing Case Study Participant Observation
Documentary Reportage: Radical Exposeacute; Quotation Case Study Participant Observer
Informant Narrative
The Documentary Book
Documentary Reportage: "Conservative"
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The Photographs
The Text Afterword, 1986
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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