Docudrama performs the past : arenas of argument in films based on true stories / by Steven N. Lipkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipkin, Steven N., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical drama--History and criticism.

Historical drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Docudramas, films and movies-of-the-week based on true stories, offer their audiences performance as persuasion. As docudramas re-create actual people and events these works perform their material. The premises of docudrama's persuasive arguments operate Otherin the basic settings that stage performances of noteworthy events, the events of war, and the lives of noteworthy individuals. In performing the past, docudramas offer us a performance of memory. Through docudramatic performance th...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHYA; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-160) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14237-6

1-4438-2787-8

9786613142375

OCLC:

821178941