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The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary
"Joshua Glick and Patricia Aufderheide Over the past twenty years, documentaries have taken on an increasingly central place in American public life. One measure of their importance is their commercial value. Major media companies have moved aggressively to monetize documentary, exploiting the form's relatively low budgets (compared to fiction)"--
Homicide: Life on the Street
Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street. Renowned for its unique visual style, Homicide: Life on the Streetfundamentally changed the police procedural genre. The show broke records, featured memorable characters, and launched careers—most notably that of David Simon, whose own nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, inspired the series, and who went on to create both The Wireand Treme. Homicide was an anomaly in the 1990s for its honest and open portrayals and discussions of race, and in this TV Milestone, Lisa Doris Alexander uses Critical Race Theory as a lens to highlight how the show illustrated the impacts that racial...
Into the Fray
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America s overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while producing a documentary for NBC News.In "Into the Fray," Tom Mascaro vividly...
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