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D.A. Pennebaker
Keith Beattie
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Description for D.A. Pennebaker
Paperback. Performing the real through the lens of a renowned innovator of documentary filmmaking Num Pages: 168 pages, 13 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFB; APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a documentary form that emphasizes observation and a straightforward portrayal of events. With a career spanning decades, Pennebaker's many projects have included avant-garde experiments (Daybreak Express), ground-breaking television documentaries (Primary), celebrity films (Dont Look Back), concert films (Monterey Pop), and innovative fusions of documentary and fiction (Maidstone). Exploring the concept of "performing the real," Keith Beattie interprets Pennebaker's films as performances in which the act of filming is in itself a performative transgression of the norms of ... Read more
This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a documentary form that emphasizes observation and a straightforward portrayal of events. With a career spanning decades, Pennebaker's many projects have included avant-garde experiments (Daybreak Express), ground-breaking television documentaries (Primary), celebrity films (Dont Look Back), concert films (Monterey Pop), and innovative fusions of documentary and fiction (Maidstone). Exploring the concept of "performing the real," Keith Beattie interprets Pennebaker's films as performances in which the act of filming is in itself a performative transgression of the norms of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078293
SKU
V9780252078293
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About Keith Beattie
Keith Beattie is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, and the author of Documentary Screens: Non-Fiction Film and Television; Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video; and Humphrey Jennings, among other books.
Reviews for D.A. Pennebaker
"A welcome addition to the Contemporary Film Directors Series."
Documentary "Filled with useful historical and technical details, this enthusiastic study of one of documentary cinema's most important filmmakers will convert some skeptics and create many new admirers of D.A. Pennebaker's work."
Joe McElhaney, author of Albert Maysles "Enlightening. . . . A useful look at the work of an ... Read more
Documentary "Filled with useful historical and technical details, this enthusiastic study of one of documentary cinema's most important filmmakers will convert some skeptics and create many new admirers of D.A. Pennebaker's work."
Joe McElhaney, author of Albert Maysles "Enlightening. . . . A useful look at the work of an ... Read more