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Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
Frederick Wiseman
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Paperback. Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary film-makers. Providing transcriptions of five of Wiseman's most important films, this book enables readers to scrutinize the films' complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman's cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor(s): Grant, Barry Keith. Num Pages: 444 pages, 74 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 838. Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing. 444 pages, 74 b/w photographs. Editor(s): Grant, Barry Keith. Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary film-makers. Providing transcriptions of five of Wiseman's most important films, this book enables readers to scrutinize the films' complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman's cinema a rich repository of American speech. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight: 838.
Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman's most important films-- Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing--providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene ... Read more
Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman's most important films-- Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing--providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
838g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520244573
SKU
V9780520244573
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About Frederick Wiseman
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992), and the editor of Fritz Lang Interviews (2003), Film Genre Reader 3 (2003), John Ford's Stagecoach (2002), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996), among ... Read more
Reviews for Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
"Fred Wiseman is the perfect example of someone who has created a great canon of films. He is not just a great documentary filmmaker, he is a great filmmaker and artist. He has created some of the wildest, most personal, and oddly expressionistic filmmaking around. His origins are not in the movies but in the theater of the absurd. I ... Read more