

Screening Reality
How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America
Author: Jon Wilkman
Narrator: Bob Souer
Unabridged: 15 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/18/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History, Performing Arts, Film
Synopsis
Screening Reality is 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.
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. Screening Reality is an essential and fascinating book for anyone looking to better understand the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.