Intelligence work : the politics of American documentary /
Jonathan Kahana.
- xiii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Film and culture .
- Film and culture .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-413) and index. Includes filmography: p. [415]-420.
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. Part I. 1. 2. Part II. 3. 4. Part III. 5. 6.
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Documentary films--History and criticism--United States Documentary films--Social aspects--United States