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Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region / Scott L. Matthews.
Lippincott Library H62.5.U5 M383 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Scott L., author.
- Series:
- Documentary arts and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Social sciences.
- Social scientists--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Social scientists.
- Social sciences--Research.
- History.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill ; Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2018]
- Summary:
- "In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to [the] region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The most documented region
- Race, region, and resistance: Howard Odum's community and folk background studies, 1905-1928
- What a place this South is: Jack Delano's Farm Security Administration photographs of Greene County, Georgia, during the New Deal
- Field trip
- Kentucky: John Cohen, Roscoe Holcomb, and documentary expression during the folk revival
- Documenting SNCC and the rural South: Danny Lyon and the cultural politics of civil rights movement photography
- Protesting the privilege of perception: resistance to documentary work in Hale County, Alabama, 1900-2010
- Seems a land out of time: documentary's enduring legacy in the twenty-first-century South.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469646442
- 1469646447
- 9781469646459
- 1469646455
- OCLC:
- 1029476338
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