Jill Godmilow
Biographic Data
| ID | 204956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Godmilow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Godmilow |
| SIGNATURE | GODMILOW J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What's wrong with the liberal documentary
I'm a documentary filmmaker and teacher who has been making films independently since 1967 and teaching filmmaking at a university since 1989. I've been thinking for a long time that the progressive or liberal documentary is an inadequate form—a relatively useless cultural product, especially for political change. Its basic strategy is description, and it makes arguments by organizing visual evidence, expressive local testimony and expert technic…
The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Martin Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They worked in steel mills, drove trucks, taught school, played tennis and golf, watched television, and went to church on Sunday. But what connected them to their family, church and community and provided the deepest expression of their identity was their traditional Serbia…
The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
What's wrong with the liberal documentary
I'm a documentary filmmaker and teacher who has been making films independently since 1967 and teaching filmmaking at a university since 1989. I've been thinking for a long time that the progressive or liberal documentary is an inadequate form—a relatively useless cultural product, especially for political change. Its basic strategy is description, and it makes arguments by organizing visual evidence, expressive local testimony and expert technic…
The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Martin Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They worked in steel mills, drove trucks, taught school, played tennis and golf, watched television, and went to church on Sunday. But what connected them to their family, church and community and provided the deepest expression of their identity was their traditional Serbia…
The Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
What's wrong with the liberal documentary
I'm a documentary filmmaker and teacher who has been making films independently since 1967 and teaching filmmaking at a university since 1989. I've been thinking for a long time that the progressive or liberal documentary is an inadequate form—a relatively useless cultural product, especially for political change. Its basic strategy is description, and it makes arguments by organizing visual evidence, expressive local testimony and expert technic…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Film director (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works)