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FeaturesOctober 1996 Pride & shame: the winning of the West On the PBS series The West directed by Stephen Ives Ken Burns’s video series The Civil War and The Game have evidently reignited interest in the film documentary as a genre and turned our history (and the national pastime of the American people, baseball) into the stuff of public television. In making these films, he has given the National Endowment for the Arts something to cheer about (and to support), and PBS stations have recently had something more substantial to offer than lavishly decorated British costume dramas and Christiesque mystery shows. An instance of the new historical documentary is In Search of the Oregon Trail, narrated by Stacy Keach, recently broadcast by the Long Island PBS station, WLIW. In producing his television series, Burns assembled a talented crew of filmmakers, and one of them, director Stephen Ives, has now launched his own production, The West This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 15 October 1996, on page 23 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/prideandshame-tuttleton-3462
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