Introduction. Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations 1
5. Chapter One Documenting from Below: Post-war Documentary, Race and Everyday Life 19
6. Chapter Two The Sick Quiet that Follows Violence: Neorealism, Psychotherapy and Collaboration 34
7. Chapter Three Charismatic Knowledge: Modernity and Southern African American Midwifery in All My Babies (1952) 61
8. Chapter Four Full of Fire: Historical Urgency and Utility in The Man in the Middle (1966) 77
9. Chapter Five Training Days: Liberal Advocacy and Self Improvement in War on Poverty Films 100
10. Chapter Six The World is Quiet Here: War on Poverty, Participatory Filmmaking and The Farmersville Project (1968) 118
11. Chapter Seven An Urban Situation: The Hartford Project (1969) and the North American Challenge 167
12. Conclusion Still Burning: Pedagogy, Participation and Documentary Media 188
13. Bibliography 191
14. Index 202