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

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29371-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glick, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Beyond Fiction: Institutions of the Real Los Angeles

Part One. New Frontier Visions in the Light and Shadow of Hollywood, 1958–1964
1. Studio Documentary in the Kennedy Era: Wolper Productions Begins
2. Downtown Development and the Endeavors of Filmmaker Kent Mackenzie

Part Two. After theWatts 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

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Glick is an Assistant Professor of English, Film, and Media Studies at Hendrix College and a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab, MIT. He teaches courses on global Hollywood, race and representation, documentary history and theory, and emerging media formations.