Capturing the South: Imagining America's Most Documented Region

(Part of the Documentary Arts and Culture Series)

by Scott L Matthews

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In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to the region's racial caste system...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469646455

ISBN13:9781469646459

Release Date:November 2018

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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