Intelligence work
Subtitle: The Politics of American Documentary
By: by Jonathan Kahana.
Edition: First Edition
Series: Film and Culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: July 7, 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780231142069; 9780231142076; 9780231512121
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Documentary films -- United States -- History and criticism; Documentary films -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: Argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals, activists, government agencies, and community groups constitutes a national-public form of culture, one that challenges traditional oppositions between official and vernacular speech, between high art and popular culture, and between academic knowledge and common sense. The author demonstrates how documentary collects and delivers the evidence of the American experience to the public sphere, where it lends force to political movements and gives substance to the social imaginary. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-413) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [415]-420.