Main entry:

Geiger, Jeffrey.

Title & Author:

American documentary film : projecting the nation / Jeffrey Geiger.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Novelties, spectacles and the documentary impulse. Case studies: Blacksmith scene (1893), Buffalo dance (1894), Mess call (1896) -- Virtual travels and the tourist gaze. Case study: Nanook of the north (1922) -- Serious play: documentary and the avant-garde. Case study: Manhatta (1921) -- Activism and advocacy: the Depression era. Case study: The plow that broke the plains (1936) -- Idea-weapons: documentary propaganda. Case study: The Memphis Belle (1944) -- 'Uncontrolled' situations: direct cinema. Case study: Grey Gardens (1975) -- Relative truths: documentary and postmodernity. Case study: Tongues untied (1989) -- Media wars: documentary dispersion. Case study: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).

Summary:

"This book examines how documentary films have contributed to the American public sphere - creating a kind of public space, serving as sites for community-building, public expression, and social innovation. Geiger focuses on how documentaries have been significant in forming ideas of the nation, both as an imagined space and a real place." [Publisher's description].

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780748621484 (pbk.)
0748621482 (pbk.)
9780748621477
0748621474

Subject:

Documentary films United States History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.
Américains au cinéma.
Media Studies.
Documentary films.
Motion pictures.
Dokumentarfilm
Nationalbewusstsein
Dokumentärfilm, USA.
United States In motion pictures.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327970
Call No.: 327970
Copy: 1
Status: Available