Title: Intelligence work
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Documentary films, History and criticism, Social aspects, Social aspects of Documentary films, Motion pictures, social aspects, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures, history, History & criticism, National, Conservatism & liberalism, 20th century, Historiography, Social sciences -> radio, television & film -> television & film criticism/rhetoric, Social sciences -> political science -> american government, Cs.soc_sci.poli_sci.gen_polit_sc, Social sciences -> history -> american history, Social sciences -> history -> general
Places: United States
LC classification: PN1995.9.D6 K25 2008