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- catalog abstract ""The Civil War. Baseball. Jazz. More than 150 million Americans have seen Ken Burns's documentaries chronicling their history on public television. With their signature blending of images, interviews, and evocative music, Burns's series have redefined documentary television. No one, before or since, has made history so popular. Who, though, ever believed that narrative-driven historical documentaries could command outsized television audiences? Gary R. Edgerton takes the full measure of Burns's accomplishments. With an inside look at the workings of Burns's Florentine Films production company, a genealogy of Burns's style and sources, and a critical account of Burns the historian, Edgerton shows how Ken Burns's powerful programs define our sense of America's past and present. Ken Burns's America will be essential reading for history buffs and viewers of Burns's immensely popular television documentaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12103643.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The Civil War. Baseball. Jazz. More than 150 million Americans have seen Ken Burns's documentaries chronicling their history on public television. With their signature blending of images, interviews, and evocative music, Burns's series have redefined documentary television. No one, before or since, has made history so popular. Who, though, ever believed that narrative-driven historical documentaries could command outsized television audiences? Gary R. Edgerton takes the full measure of Burns's accomplishments.".
- catalog description "Filmography: p. [249]-252.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface and acknowledgments -- Rebirth of a nation : reframing The Civil War (1990) on prime-time television -- Life lessons : learning the basics on Brooklyn Bridge (1982) -- Variations on a theme : American originals, symbols, and institutions -- Creative team as historian : inside the production process on Empire of the air : the men who made radio (1992) -- Whole new ball game : Baseball (1994) and The west (1996) as event TV -- American lives : Thomas Jefferson (1997) and the television biography as popular history -- Ken Burns's America reconsidered : mainstreaming Jazz (2001) for a national audience.".
- catalog description "With an inside look at the workings of Burns's Florentine Films production company, a genealogy of Burns's style and sources, and a critical account of Burns the historian, Edgerton shows how Ken Burns's powerful programs define our sense of America's past and present. Ken Burns's America will be essential reading for history buffs and viewers of Burns's immensely popular television documentaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 268 p., [10] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0312236468".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "791.45/0232/092 21".
- catalog subject "Burns, Ken, 1953- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PN1992.5.B79 E34 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface and acknowledgments -- Rebirth of a nation : reframing The Civil War (1990) on prime-time television -- Life lessons : learning the basics on Brooklyn Bridge (1982) -- Variations on a theme : American originals, symbols, and institutions -- Creative team as historian : inside the production process on Empire of the air : the men who made radio (1992) -- Whole new ball game : Baseball (1994) and The west (1996) as event TV -- American lives : Thomas Jefferson (1997) and the television biography as popular history -- Ken Burns's America reconsidered : mainstreaming Jazz (2001) for a national audience.".
- catalog title "Ken Burns's America / by Gary R. Edgerton.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".