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The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a 2009 television documentary miniseries by director/producer Ken Burns and producer/writer Dayton Duncan which features the United States National Park system and traces the system's history. [2] The series won two 2010 Emmy Awards; one for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and one for Outstanding Writing ...
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of ...
Jul 29, 2022 · National Parks, Ken Burns, PBS. Simultaneously a biography of both historical and contemporary characters and a uniquely American idea, this 12-hour, six-part documentary, directed by Ken Burns and co-produced with writer Dayton Duncan, traces the evolution of national parks beginning in the mid-1800s and follows it over the next 150 years.
- 697 min
The National Parks: America's Best Idea: With Peter Coyote, William Cronon, Dayton Duncan, Shelton Johnson. The history of the U.S. National Parks system, including the initial ideas which led to the world's first national parks and the expansion of the system over 150 years.
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- 2009-09-27
- Documentary, History
- Peter Coyote, William Cronon, Dayton Duncan
“The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” the filmmaker’s latest project for PBS, is merely the most visible centerpiece of a promotional campaign for the parks and public television.
A Visual Critique of Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Abstract: This essay analyzes how Burns adapts his well-known documentary style to the subject of national parks and the effects of his visual representations on viewers’ under-standing of the parks. It offers two main critiques: first, Burns presents an ideal of ...
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea Karl Jacoby Abstract:The release of Ken Burns’s documentary on the national parks is to be cele-brated for bringing national attention to the field of environmental history. Yet for all the movie’s strengths, Burns only partially engaged two concepts central to contemporary en-
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