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02769aam a22004098i 4500 001 181F53462DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190615s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019019146 020 $a 1635571030 020 $a 9781635571035 035 $a (OCoLC)1090368974 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9 D6 W47 2020 100 1 $a Wilkman, Jon $e author. 245 10 $a Screening reality : $b how documentary filmmakers reimagined America / $c Jon Wilkman. 263 $a 2002 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c [2020] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue : facing the facts -- The world on a screen -- Reality under fire and projected Americanism -- Bijou safaries and truthful lies -- Rebels, government agents, and re-enactors -- War, peace, and propaganda, take two -- Fun facts, gawking mother nature, molding minds,and home-made history -- Small screens, big stories -- Zooming in -- For the people, by the people -- Three windows, one landscape -- Alternative takes -- 60 minutes, mock and mega truth, the multiverse, and life through the looking glass -- Getting real in a golden age -- Epilogue : virtual reality and then what?. 520 $a "Even with claims of a new 'post-truth' era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more nonfiction movies are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating and compounding our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. How did this happen? Providing answers, Screening Reality is a widescreen view of the rarely examined relationship between nonfiction movies and American history--how 'reality' has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I and II, the dawn of mass media, the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, and the communications revolution that led to a twenty-first century of empowered yet divided Americans"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Documentary films $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Documentary films $x Social aspects $z United States. 941 $a 7 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063639.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220402010242.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210105034018.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20201204010904.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829015000.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200801010221.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=181F53462DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search