{"product_id":"screening-reality-jon-wilkman-9781635571035","title":"Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis.\"--Leonard Maltin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, \u003ci\u003eScreening Reality\u003c\/i\u003e is the history of American documentary film we have been waiting for. --Kenneth Turan, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e film critic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmidst 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eScreening Reality \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eScreening Reality \u003c\/i\u003eis essential and fascinating reading for anyone looking to expand an understanding of the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Wilkman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1635571030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635571035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2020","brand":"Jon Wilkman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989427323135,"sku":"9781635571035","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35615f6b-76cf-4e1a-91d9-69bc6183e697.jpg?v=1683299439","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/screening-reality-jon-wilkman-9781635571035","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}