Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIDDLETOWN...
...that mythical region called the heartland, it has been probed, inspected and all but dissected for more than half a century, labeled by teams of social scientists as typically American. The husband-and-wife team of Robert and Helen Lynd led off in 1929 with their famous book Middletown: A Study in American Culture, following up eight years later with Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. A research team of university scholars is about to release the first part of a third look, conducted in the mid-'70s. Still another survey will be unveiled on TV this...
...Hearts and Minds, a 1975 film examining the origins and consequences of the American involvement in Viet Nam. The Selling of the Pentagon won an Emmy, Hearts and Minds an Oscar, but both were also criticized as simplistic, distorted and unfair to some of the people they depicted. Middletown is likely to become just as controversial. Indeed, Xerox, which provided $600,000 of the program's $3 million budget, has already disassociated itself, disturbed by the sometimes foul language. Larry Grossman, the president of PBS, has denounced one 4-min. 7-sec. scene in which a teen...
Most of the footage wound up on the cutting-room floor, of course-in some episodes 80 times as much was shot as was used-but what remains is often extraordinarily revealing. Like the 1973 PBS series An American Family, about the William Louds of Santa Barbara, Calif., Middletown does away with any kind of narration that might distance the subject from the viewer, and the camera records such private and intimate moments that even wallpaper might blush...
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