Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary

by Jonathan Kahana

Book Overview

Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals, activists, government agencies, and community groups constitutes a national-public form of culture, one that challenges traditional oppositions between official and vernacular speech, between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142072
• ISBN13: 9780231142076
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"