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Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber Jan 2004

Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber

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New Journalism and Direct Cinema reflect a unique conjoined moment in the evolution of nonfiction writing and filmmaking in the United States. I argue that these movements developed as a specific response to the shift from a modern to a postmodern aesthetic, a shift away from faith in a coherent reality at a historical moment, the 1960s. In an attempt to capture reality using new methods that would raise the status of nonfiction, writers and filmmakers in these movements call attention to process and "style." at first glance, these experiments with new styles appear radical; instead, New Journalism and Direct …


American Newsreels Of The 1930s, Dennis Marklin Gephardt Jan 1998

American Newsreels Of The 1930s, Dennis Marklin Gephardt

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