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They must be represented : the politics of documentary /

By: Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 1994.Description: xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781859849255
  • 1859849253
  • 9781859840252
  • 1859840256
Other title:
  • Politics of documentary
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D6 R34 1994
Contents:
Introduction: The work of intellectuals in the age of post/modern representation -- Wreckage upon wreckage : history, documentary, and the ruins of memory -- Voyeurism and class consciousness : James Agee and Walker Evans praise famous men -- Margaret Bourke-White's red coat; or, Slumming in the thirties -- People's culture, popular culture, public culture : Hollywood, newsreels, and FSA films and photographs -- Writing the wrong : the politics and poetics of women's Vietnam War reportage -- History in your own home : cinéma vérité, docudrama, and America's families -- Ethnographies of women : soft fiction and feminist theory -- National bodies : gender, sexuality, and terror in feminist counter-documentaries -- Video vérité : Rodney King in the City of Angels of history -- Epilogue: One more thing.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General PN 1995 RAB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0015722

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-251) and index.

Introduction: The work of intellectuals in the age of post/modern representation -- Wreckage upon wreckage : history, documentary, and the ruins of memory -- Voyeurism and class consciousness : James Agee and Walker Evans praise famous men -- Margaret Bourke-White's red coat; or, Slumming in the thirties -- People's culture, popular culture, public culture : Hollywood, newsreels, and FSA films and photographs -- Writing the wrong : the politics and poetics of women's Vietnam War reportage -- History in your own home : cinéma vérité, docudrama, and America's families -- Ethnographies of women : soft fiction and feminist theory -- National bodies : gender, sexuality, and terror in feminist counter-documentaries -- Video vérité : Rodney King in the City of Angels of history -- Epilogue: One more thing.

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