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Book SynopsisProjecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Learning to Look: The Educational Documentary and Post-war Race Relations 1. Documenting from Below: Post-war Documentary, Race, and Everyday Life 2. The Sick Quiet That Follows Violence: Neorealism, Psychotherapy, and Collaboration 3. Charismatic Knowledge: Modernity and Southern African American Midwifery in All My Babies (1952) 4. Full of Fire: Historical Urgency and Utility in The Man in the Middle (1966) 5. Training Days: Liberal Advocacy and Self-Improvement in War on Poverty Films 6. The World Is Quiet Here: War on Poverty, Participatory Filmmaking and The Farmersville Project (1968) 7. An Urban Situation: The Hartford Project (1969) and the North American Challenge Conclusion: Still Burning: Pedagogy, Participation and Documentary Media Bibliography Index
