Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America by Wilkman, Jon
Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America by Wilkman, Jon

Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America

"A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis."--Leonard MaltinAuthoritative, accessible,...
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Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America by Wilkman, Jon

Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America

$482.38
Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America by Wilkman, Jon

Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America

$482.38
Author: Jon Wilkman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis."--Leonard Maltin

Authoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, Screening Reality is the history of American documentary film we have been waiting for. --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic

From Edison to IMAX, Ken Burns to virtual environments, the first comprehensive history of American documentary film and the remarkable men and women who changed the way we view the world.

Amidst claims of a new "post-truth" era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more documentaries are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. For most of our history, Americans have depended on motion pictures to bring the realities of the world into view. And yet the richly complex, ever-evolving relationship between nonfiction movies and American history is virtually unexplored.

Screening Reality is a widescreen view of how American "truth" 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.

In the telling, professional filmmaker Jon Wilkman draws on his own experience, as well as the stories of inventors, adventurers, journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists who framed and filtered the world to inform, persuade, awe, and entertain. Interweaving American and motion picture history, and an inquiry into the nature of truth on screen, Screening Reality is essential and fascinating reading for anyone looking to expand an understanding of the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.

Author: Jon Wilkman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781635571035


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 101
Booklist 10/15/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2020
Choice 09/01/2020

About the Author
Jon Wilkman is an author and award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO and A&E. His seven-part Turner Classic Movies series, Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, was nominated for three Emmys. His previous book, Floodpath, was an Amazon Nonfiction Book of the Year. A founding member and three-term president of the International Documentary Association, Wilkman lives in Los Angeles.


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