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Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977
About this book
Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua Glick analyzes the films of Hollywood documentarians such as David Wolper and Mel Stuart, along with lesser-known independents and activists such as Kent Mackenzie, Lynne Littman, and Jesús Salvador Treviño. While the former group reinvigorated a Cold War cultural liberalism, the latter group advocated for social justice in a city plagued by severe class stratification and racial segregation. Glick examines how mainstream and alternative filmmakers turned to the archives, civic institutions, and production facilities of Los Angeles in order to both change popular understandings of the city and shape the social consciousness of the nation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Beyond Fiction: Institutions of the Real Los Angeles
- PART ONE. NEW FRONTIER VISIONS IN THE LIGHT AND SHADOW OF HOLLYWOOD, 1958–1964
- PART TWO. AFTER THE WATTS UPRISING: COMMUNITY MEDIA FROM THE TOP DOWN AND THE BOTTOM UP, 1965–1973
- PART THREE. BICENTENNIAL SCREENS, 1974–1977
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index