| TD-50681-14 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Center for Documentary Studies | Contested: Sports and Society | 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 | $55,000.00 | John | | Biewen | | | | Center for Documentary Studies | Durham | NC | 27705-4854 | USA | 2014 | Arts, Other | America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Public Programs | 55000 | 0 | 47333.37 | 0 | Development of a multipart radio series exploring the social and cultural dynamics of athletics in America.
Contested is a multi-pronged project that explores the role of sport in American culture and society. It will reach millions of public radio listeners, and an online audience, through these venues: 1) a series of sound-rich short documentaries (six-to-eight-minutes) on a nationally broadcast public radio program such as NPR's "All Things Considered", and 2) a documentary for "This American Life" exploring the rapidly growing world of sports talk radio as a venue in which American men define and redefine masculinity in the 21st century. |