Projecting race : postwar America, civil rights and documentary film / Stephen Charbonneau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charbonneau, Stephen, author.

Series:

Nonfictions.

Nonfictions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Wallflower Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

Projecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights. Drawing on extensive archival research and textual analyses, the volume tracks the evolution of race-based, nontheatrical cinema from its neorealist roots to its incorporation of new documentary techniques intent on recording reality in real time. The films featured include classic documentaries, such as Sidney Meyers's The Quiet One (1948), and a range of familiar and less familiar state-sponsored educational documentaries from George Stoney (Palmour Street, 1950; All My Babies, 1953; and The Man in the Middle, 1966) and the Drew Associates (Another Way, 1967). Final chapters highlight community-development films jointly produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Office of Economic Opportunity (The Farmersville Project, 1968; The Hartford Project, 1969) in rural and industrial settings. Featuring testimonies from farm workers, activists, and government officials, the films reflect communities in crisis, where organized and politically active racial minorities upended the status quo. Ultimately, this work traces the postwar contours of a liberal racial outlook as government agencies came to grips with profound and inescapable social change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations

Chapter One Documenting from Below: Post-war Documentary, Race and Everyday Life

Chapter Two The Sick Quiet that Follows Violence: Neorealism, Psychotherapy and Collaboration

Chapter Three Charismatic Knowledge: Modernity and Southern African American Midwifery in All My Babies (1952)

Chapter Four Full of Fire: Historical Urgency and Utility in The Man in the Middle (1966)

Chapter Five Training Days: Liberal Advocacy and Self Improvement in War on Poverty Films

Chapter Six The World is Quiet Here: War on Poverty, Participatory Filmmaking and The Farmersville Project (1968)

Chapter Seven An Urban Situation: The Hartford Project (1969) and the North American Challenge

Conclusion Still Burning: Pedagogy, Participation and Documentary Media

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2016).

ISBN:

9780231850957

0231850956

OCLC:

984688682