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Capturing the South : Imagining America's Most Documented Region /

"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...

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Autor principal: Matthews, Scott L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The most documented region
  • Race, region, and resistance: Howard Odum's community and folk background studies, 1905-1928
  • What a place this South is: Jack Delano's Farm Security Administration photographs of Greene County, Georgia, during the New Deal
  • Field trip
  • Kentucky: John Cohen, Roscoe Holcomb, and documentary expression during the folk revival
  • Documenting SNCC and the rural South: Danny Lyon and the cultural politics of civil rights movement photography
  • Protesting the privilege of perception: resistance to documentary work in Hale County, Alabama, 1900-2010
  • Seems a land out of time: documentary's enduring legacy in the twenty-first-century South.