the roosevelts get the ken burns treatment starting sunday on pbs.
Strangely enthralled with first installment. Thanks for the heads up. Missed the 8:00 second installment start tonight so will tune in when replayed at 10:00. Maybe it's just that I have so little historical knowledge that I have no standing to criticize Burns, but it seems great to me.
Are there consistent acedemic criticisms of his work?
i didnt watch past the first 20 minutes but am dvring the entire series. i get caught up in the slavishness to the ken burns style. same group of historians he has trotted out before, at least at first, same type of score and camera movement, same narrator. he weaves an interesting enough narrative and im sure to the non-student of history, myself included, it provides a lot of useful information. it seems that historians are divided as well at the quality of his work, or they were regarding his civil war documentary which inspired an entire book to debate that point.
The general population will always benefit from Ken Burns documentaries. Even if it's pitched to ill informed adults today, in the future it would make good background viewing for middle schoolers on the various subjects he covers. He doesn't talk down, but celebrates the subject and rallies enthusiasm. One and a half thumbs up lifetime achievement award from me.
"....Eleanor had discovered the rewards of useful work. Like many other debutantes of her era she had volunteered to work with immigrant children in a settlement house. In her case on Rivington Street on the lower east side. Unlike most of her contemporaries she took her work seriously...."
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the roosevelts get the ken burns treatment starting sunday on pbs.
- dave 9-12-2014 4:00 pm
Strangely enthralled with first installment. Thanks for the heads up. Missed the 8:00 second installment start tonight so will tune in when replayed at 10:00. Maybe it's just that I have so little historical knowledge that I have no standing to criticize Burns, but it seems great to me.
Are there consistent acedemic criticisms of his work?
- jim 9-16-2014 2:05 am [add a comment]
i didnt watch past the first 20 minutes but am dvring the entire series. i get caught up in the slavishness to the ken burns style. same group of historians he has trotted out before, at least at first, same type of score and camera movement, same narrator. he weaves an interesting enough narrative and im sure to the non-student of history, myself included, it provides a lot of useful information.
it seems that historians are divided as well at the quality of his work, or they were regarding his civil war documentary which inspired an entire book to debate that point.
- dave 9-16-2014 6:34 am [add a comment]
The general population will always benefit from Ken Burns documentaries. Even if it's pitched to ill informed adults today, in the future it would make good background viewing for middle schoolers on the various subjects he covers. He doesn't talk down, but celebrates the subject and rallies enthusiasm. One and a half thumbs up lifetime achievement award from me.
- bill 9-16-2014 3:35 pm [add a comment]
"....Eleanor had discovered the rewards of useful work. Like many other debutantes of her era she had volunteered to work with immigrant children in a settlement house. In her case on Rivington Street on the lower east side. Unlike most of her contemporaries she took her work seriously...."
- jim 9-18-2014 2:51 am [add a comment]