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TimesTalks - Documenting America
Author:
Ric Burns, Ken Burns, Ralph Blumenthal
Format:
Audio Download
Audio Length:
1 hour and 5 min.
Rating:
Price:
$9.95
Publisher's Summary:
Ric Burns is a documentary filmmaker best know for his epic film series New York: A Documentary Film. He has also made Coney Island, The Donner Party, and The Way West.Ken Burns has produced, directed and written many historical documentaries including Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, Baseball, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Civil War and many others./p>Ralph Blumenthal is a cultural report for The New York Times and has served as an award winning metro reporter and foreign correspondent. He is the author of Last Days of the Sicilians: At War with the Mafia, Once Through the Heart, and a history of the Stork Club among other works. The two most acclaimed documentary filmmakers of their generation, brothers Ric and Ken Burns, talk with Ralph Blumenthal about the business and art of their craft. Both detail their training and struggles with early films, the passionate approach to their filmmaking, and why they view themselves as movie makers first and only "faux historians" second. Of special note are their critical comments about the film Gangs of New York and their struggle to balance popular storytelling with accurate history.
Listen to a program by Ken Burns.
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