Capturing the South: imagining America's most documented region
In: Documentary arts and culture
Abstract
"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"--
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Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
ISBN
9781469646442, 9781469646459, 9781469646466
Seiten
xiv, 312 Seiten
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