Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

Cinema, Television, and the Archive

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by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick and Mark Williams

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

AFI Film Readers

1st publishing

2018

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 356 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-58953-0

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Book Presentation:
The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format’s inherent intermediality; its mediation of "events" for local, national, and transnational communities; its distinctive archival legacies; and, consequently, its integral place in film and television studies more broadly. This collection brings fresh, contemporary methodologies and analysis to bear on a vast amount of material that has languished in relative obscurity for far too long.

About the authors:
Mark Garrett Cooper is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA.Sara Beth Levavy is a scholar of Film, Media, and Art History.Ross Melnick is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Mark Williams is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.

See the publisher website: Routledge