Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America
by Jon Wilkman
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"Even with claims of a new 'post-truth' era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more nonfiction movies are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating and compounding our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. How did this happen? Providing answers, Screening Reality is a widescreen view of the rarely examined relationship between nonfiction movies and American history--how 'reality' has been discovered, defined, show more projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I and II, the dawn of mass media, the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, and the communications revolution that led to a twenty-first century of empowered yet divided Americans"-- show lessTags
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Jon Wilkman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles. His work has been seen on CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO, the History Channel, and Turner Classic Movies. Wilkman is also the author, with his late wife, Nancy, of two books about the past and present of Los Angeles. He is currently at work on a documentary about the St. Francis Dam show more disaster. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2020
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 070.1 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Theory And Instruction
- LCC
- PN1995.9 .D6 .W47 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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