Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.
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“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
Things are not always as they appear. And for documentary filmmakers, understanding the appetites and working styles of potential filmmaking partners
Paula Apsell began her career with PBS in 1975 as a production assistant on a small science series called NOVA. Back then, men would typically be
'Woody Allen: A Documentary' airs November 20 and 21 on 'American Masters.'
While the biopic has always been part of Hollywood filmmaking, with the recent successes of Capote , Good Night and Good Luck and Walk the Line , the