ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part one|109 pages
newsfilm and the news
chapter four|14 pages
home invasions
chapter five|19 pages
completing the transmedia trinity
chapter six|21 pages
historicizing television news in the 1960s
chapter seven|22 pages
breakthroughs by women in documentary newsfilm production
part two|90 pages
newsfilm geographies
chapter ten|13 pages
from canada and back again
chapter eleven|18 pages
a long ride on the metro
chapter twelve|17 pages
mama’s brand of tv
part three|104 pages
into the archives
chapter fifteen|5 pages
newsfilm at the national archives and records administration
chapter seveteen|3 pages
reading the news(films)
chapter eighteen|3 pages
if you digitize it, they will come or welcome south, brother
section |14 pages
Note on Wuzhip!