American Masters
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| American Masters | |
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| Format | Documentary |
| Created by | Susan Lacy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Susan Lacy (1986-present) |
| Producer(s) | Thirteen/WNET[1] |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | PBS |
| Original run | June 22, 1986 – present |
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| Website | |
American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on the artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City. The show debuted on PBS in 1986.[1]
Groups or organizations featured include: Actor's Studio, Algonquin Round Table, Group Theatre, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Women of Tin Pan Alley, Negro Ensemble Company, Juilliard School, the Beat Generation, The Singer-songwriters of the 1970s, Sun Records, Vaudeville, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
History
American Masters, a series "devoted to America's 'greatest native-born and adopted' artists," was originally scheduled to premier in September 1985; for "logistical scheduling reasons" the premiere was delayed until summer 1986, though on October 16, 1985, an American Masters "special" called Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait was aired.[2]
The first of the 15 first-season episodes was Private Conversations,[3] a "cinema-verite documentary by Christian Blackwood done in that trickiest of cinematic forms: a film about a film, in this instance the television version of Death of a Salesman, directed by Volker Schlöndorff".[4] It aired on June 23, 1986, as one of two episodes not specifically commissioned for the show's first season.[4]
Susan Lacy, American Masters creator and executive producer, selected each subject, matched them to the specific film makers, and oversaw a first-season budget of $8 million.[4] Before creating the series Lacy had been the senior programmer for Great Performances and one of the "architects" of American Playhouse, having written the original proposal for the latter. At the time of the show's premiere, she was also the East Coast head of the Sundance Institute.[4]
After the show's first two seasons, American Masters began producing most of its episodes; in those cases, it hires directors, arranges for funding, manages the budget, and supervises the editing; the show reserves the right to make the final cut on every film it produces.[5] The American Masters production company occasionally plays a more limited role and co-produces some of its episodes, such as the 2005 documentary on Bob Dylan, No Direction Home, and then in 2010 The Doors, When You're Strange.
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Subjects
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A
- Actor's Studio
- Stella Adler
- Louisa May Alcott
- Algonquin Round Table
- Woody Allen
- Atlantic Records
- Louis Armstrong
- John James Audubon
- Richard Avedon
B
- Joan Baez
- George Balanchine
- James Baldwin
- Lucille Ball
- Tony Bennett
- Leonard Bernstein
- Jeff Bridges
- James Brown
- Carol Burnett
C
- John Cage
- Alexander Calder
- Cab Calloway
- Robert Capa
- Truman Capote
- Johnny Carson
- John Cassavetes
- Willa Cather
- Lon Chaney
- Charlie Chaplin
- Ray Charles
- Julia Child
- Harold Clurman
- Nat King Cole
- Sam Cooke
- Aaron Copland
- Walter Cronkite
- George Cukor
- Merce Cunningham
- Edward S. Curtis
D
E
F
- Ella Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John Ford/John Wayne
- Miloš Forman
- Aretha Franklin
- Buckminster Fuller
G
- Judy Garland
- Marvin Gaye
- Frank Gehry
- George Gershwin
- Allen Ginsberg
- Lillian Gish
- Philip Glass
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Benny Goodman
- Glenn Gould
- Martha Graham
- Cary Grant
- D.W. Griffith
- Woody Guthrie
- Group Theatre
H
- Merle Haggard
- Dashiell Hammett
- John H. Hammond
- Helen Hayes
- Lillian Hellman
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jerry Herman
- Don Hewitt
- Al Hirschfeld
- Alfred Hitchcock/David O. Selznick
- Hollywood Chinese
- David Hockney
- Billie Holiday
- Lena Horne
- Zora Neale Hurston
I
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J
K
L
- Harper Lee
- Annie Leibovitz
- John Lennon
- James Levine
- Harold Lloyd
- Cachao Lopez
- George Lucas
- Henry Luce
M
- Norman Mailer
- Bob Marley
- Sanford Meisner
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Arthur Miller
- Joni Mitchell
- Margaret Mitchell
- Marilyn Monroe
- Robert Motherwell
- John Muir
- Edward R. Murrow
N
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Willie Nelson
- Bob Newhart
- Mike Nichols/Elaine May
- Alwin Nikolais/Murray Louis
- Isamu Noguchi
O
P
- Jack Paar
- Charlie Parker
- Les Paul
- Pearl Jam (Pearl Jam Twenty)
- Gregory Peck
- I.M. Pei
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Sidney Poitier
- Cole Porter
- Katherine Anne Porter
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R
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Man Ray
- Lou Reed
- Frederic Remington
- Diego Rivera
- Jerome Robbins
- Paul Robeson
- Norman Rockwell
- Richard Rodgers
- Will Rogers
- Arthur Rubinstein
S
- Mort Sahl
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Waldo Pressman Salt
- Charles M. Schulz
- Martin Scorsese
- Pete Seeger
- Maurice Sendak
- Rod Serling
- Neil Simon
- Paul Simon
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- W. Eugene Smith
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Isaac Stern
- George Stevens
- Preston Sturges
- William Styron
- Sun Records
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
T
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V
W
- Andy Warhol
- Warner Brothers
- Alice Waters
- Muddy Waters
- Billy Wilder
- Hank Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- William Wyler
X
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Y
Z
Funding
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- Cuismart (November 2, 1998-July 6, 2006)
- Le Cordon Bleu (August 18, 2004)
- The Charles H. Revsion Foundation (July 21, 1998-Present)
- Carnegie Corporation of New York (July 6, 1983-Present)
- Park Foundation (January 6, 1996-2006)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (August 24, 1994–December 26, 2005)
- National Endowment for the Arts (July 6, 1983–present)
- Rosland P. Walter (May 1, 1992–present)
- The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (2009–present)
- American Playhouse (2001–present)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting (January 6, 1983–present)
- Institute for Civil Society (1999-2005)
- Viewers Like You (January 6, 1983–present)
- MasterCard (August 29, 2000–August 31, 2007)
- Apple Inc. (August 29, 2000–2008)
- American Express (August 24, 1994-August 31, 1995)
References
- ^ a b "Program Description". PBS. July 9, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/about-the-series/introduction/14/. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ O'Connor, John J. (October 16, 1985). "A Self-portrait Marks Copland's 85th Birthday". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/16/arts/tv-reviews-a-self-portrait-marks-copland-s-85th-birthday.html. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ a b c d James, Jamie (June 22, 1986). "Bringing America's Creative Talent into Focus". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/22/movies/bringing-america-s-creative-talents-into-focus.html?&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ "Susan Lacy: Television Producer, Director, Executive". She Made It. The Paley Center for Media. http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=36. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
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