Ken Burns's America
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Ken Burns's America

Packaging the Past for Television

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Ken Burns's America

Packaging the Past for Television

About this book

This is the first book-length study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producer-director as a television auteur, a pivotal programming influence within the industry, and a popular historian who portrays a uniquely personal and compelling version of the country's past for tens of millions of viewers nationwide. Ken Burns's America has a three-fold agenda: First it looks at the ideas and individuals that have influenced Burns in the creation of his easily-recognized style, as well as in the development and maturation of his ideological outlook. Second, the book gives readers a window on the Ken Burns production machine. Gary Edgerton shows us the inner working of Florentine Films. Finally, he looks at Burns as a popular historian who reevaluates the nation's historical legacy from a new generational perspective and, in the process, becomes one of the major cultural commentators of our era. The volume finally takes the full measure of the man and the industry he has helped to create.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781349631100
eBook ISBN
9781137054821

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. CHAPTER ONE Rebirth of a Nation: Reframing The Civil War (1990) on Prime-Time Television
  7. CHAPTER TWO Life Lessons: Learning the Basics on Brooklyn Bridge (1982)
  8. CHAPTER THREE Variations on a Theme: American Originals, Symbols, and Institutions
  9. CHAPTER FOUR The Creative Team as Historian: Inside the Production Process on Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1992)
  10. CHAPTER FIVE A Whole New Ball Game: Baseball (1994) and The West (1996) as Event TV
  11. CHAPTER SIX American Lives: Thomas Jefferson (1997) and the Television Biography as Popular History
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN Ken Burns’s America Reconsidered: Mainstreaming Jazz (2001) for a National Audience
  13. NOTES
  14. VIDEOGRAPHY
  15. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
  16. GENERAL INDEX
  17. FILM / TV INDEX