Bruce Jackson 
The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded [EPUB ebook] 
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories

In
The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories narrate and bring meaning to our lives. Jackson writes about his family and friends, acquaintances, and experiences, focusing on more than a dozen personal stories. From oral histories to public stories—such as what happened when Bob Dylan ‘went electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival—Jackson gets at how the ‘truth’ is constantly shifting depending on the perspective, memory, and social meaning that is ascribed to various events—both real and imaginary. The book is ideal for students and writers of oral history and storytelling but goes beyond those topics to encompass how we interpret and understand the real-life ‘stories’ that we encounter in our daily experience.



This edition includes new sections on how stories are related to historical facts and new chapters on contemporary films (expanding the discussion of visual storytelling) and on conspiracy narratives and Trump’s Big Lie. Fresh examples tie together new material with the existing stories.

Daftar Isi

Introduction




PART I: PERSONAL STORIES



1. Telling Stories



2. The Fate of Stories



3. The True Story of Why Stephen Spender Quit the Spanish Civil War



4. The Doctor’s Story



5. The Stories People Tell



6. Acting in the Passive;
or, Somebody Got Killed but Nobody Killed Anybody



7. The Story of Chuck



8. Storytellers’ Storytellers



9. The Deceptive Anarchy of
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men




PART II: PUBLIC STORIES



10. Just the Facts



11. Stories That Don’t Make Sense



12. Murder, Movies, Trials, and Kinds of Talk



13. The Real O.J. Story



14. Words to Kill By



15. Bob Dylan and the Legend of Newport 1965




PART III: SEEING IN THE DARK



16. Silver Bullets



17. Loose Ends in
Night Moves



18. Making War, Making Movies:
The Fog of War



19. Filming
Gatsby



20. Fellini’s Memory:
Amarcord




PART IV: THE STORY IS TRUE



21. The Storyteller I Looked for Every Time I Looked for Storytellers



22. Farinata’s Silence



Coda: Donald Trump’s Big Lie



Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Tentang Penulis

Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the coauthor (with Diane Christian) of
Voices from Death Row, Second Edition and author of
Ways of the Hand: A Photographer’s Memoir and
American Chartres: Buffalo’s Waterfront Grain Elevators, all published by SUNY Press.