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By Stephen Charbonneau

ISBN-10: 0231178905

ISBN-13: 9780231178907

ISBN-10: 0231178913

ISBN-13: 9780231178914

Projecting Race offers a background of academic documentary filmmaking within the postwar period in gentle of race kinfolk and the struggle for civil rights. Drawing on broad archival study and textual analyses, the amount tracks the evolution of race-based, nontheatrical cinema from its neorealist roots to its incorporation of latest documentary options motive on recording fact in genuine time. the flicks featured contain vintage documentaries, equivalent to Sidney Meyers’s The Quiet One (1948), and more than a few regularly occurring and not more conventional state-sponsored academic documentaries from George Stoney (Palmour Street, 1950; All My Babies, 1953; and The guy within the Middle, 1966) and the Drew affiliates (Another Way, 1967). ultimate chapters spotlight community-development movies together produced by means of the nationwide movie Board of Canada and the workplace of financial chance (The Farmersville Project, 1968; The Hartford Project, 1969) in rural and business settings. that includes stories from farm staff, activists, and executive officers, the flicks replicate groups in obstacle, the place equipped and politically energetic racial minorities upended the established order. finally, this paintings lines the postwar contours of a liberal racial outlook as govt businesses got here to grips with profound and inescapable social change.

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