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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, projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2020Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 9781635571059
- Other · English · 2020Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 512 pages · 9781635571035
Documentary filmsFilm criticismHistory and criticismSocial aspects