Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

Author: Glick Joshua  

Publisher: University Of California Press‎

Publication year: 2018

E-ISBN: 9780520966918

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520293717

Subject: J9 Movies, TV

Keyword: 电影、电视艺术

Language: ENG

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Description

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.

Chapter

2. Downtown Development and the Endeavors of Filmmaker Kent Mackenzie

PART TWO. AFTER THE WATTS UPRISING: COMMUNITY MEDIA FROM THE TOP DOWN AND THE BOTTOM UP, 1965–1973

3. The Rise of Minority Storytelling: Network News, Public Television, and Independent Collectives

4. Hard Lessons in Hollywood Civics: Managing the Crisis of the Liberal Consensus

5. Wattstax and the Transmedia Soul Economy

PART THREE. BICENTENNIAL SCREENS, 1974–1977

6. Roots/Routes of American Identity

7. Numbering Our Days in Los Angeles, USA

Conclusion: The 1984 Olympics and the Neoliberalization of Culture

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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