They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary

by Paula Rabinowitz

Book Overview

They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies. Paula Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which these four media shaped truth-claims and political agency over the decades: in the 1930s, about poverty, labor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859840256
• ISBN13: 9781859840252
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"