remaking Reality Hardcover

After World War Ii, U.sDocumentarians Engaged In ARigorous Rethinking Of Established Documentary Practices And HistoriesResponding To The Tumultuous Transformations Of The Postwar Erathe Atomic Age, The Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, The Emergence Of The Environmental Movement, Immigration And Refugee Crises, Student Activism, The Globalization Of Labor, And The Financial Collapse Of documentary Makers Increasingly Reconceived Reality As The Site Of Social Conflict And Saw Their Work As Instrumental To Struggles For JusticeExamining AWide Range Of Forms And Media, Including Sound Recording, Narrative Journalism, Drawing, Photography, Film, And Video, This Book Is ADaring Interdisciplinary Study Of Documentary Culture And Practice From To The PresentEssays By Leading Scholars Across Disciplines Collectively Explore The Activist Impulse Of Documentarians Who Not Only Record Reality But Also Challenge Their Audiences To Take Part In Realitys Remaking.in Addition To The Editors, The Volumes Contributors Include Michael Mark Cohen, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh Raiford, Rebecca MSchreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, And Daniel Worden'