Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture
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Career
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Cinematographer
Civilisation (TV series)
Classroom
Consideration
Coproduction (public services)
Cross-cultural
Day care
Documentary film
Editing
Educational Series
Employment
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Ethnographic film
Ethnography
Executive producer
Explanation
Film studies
Filmmaking
Footage
Freelancer
Funding
Genre
George Marcus
Ideology
Illustration
Institution
Jerome Kagan
Literature
Melvin Konner
Michael Arlen
Multiculturalism
Narration
Narrative
National Educational Television
New York University
PBS
Pedagogy
Post-production
Pre-production
Professor
Psychology
Public broadcasting
Public Culture
Public sphere
Relativism
Sandra Scarr
Scholarship
Social science
Sociology
Subtitle (captioning)
Symbolic capital
Television
Television documentary
Television in the United States
Television program
Television system
The Ascent of Man
Trade-off
University of Pennsylvania
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Videotape
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WNET
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- ISBN 9780691044675
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself--examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study--one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality.
He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.
Barry Dornfeld is an Associate at the Center for Applied Research in Philadelphia and is a producer of documentary ethnographic films. His films include Powerhouse for God (1988) and Gandy Dancers (1992).
