| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 268 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index. |
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Videography: [249]-252. |
| Subject |
Burns, Ken, 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
0312236468 |
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