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The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles
Jonathan B. Vogels
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Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Boldly signifying the cultural issues of the 1960s and 1970s in groundbreaking pieces such as Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, and Showman, filmmakers and brothers David and Albert Maysles used an approach to documentary film that involved spontaneous observation of naturally occurring events. With no rehearsed footage and no preconceived plots, their revolutionary work eschewed the authoritative voice-over narrator, didactic scripts, and the traditional problem-and-solution format used by the majority of their predecessors in the genre and duly influenced subsequent directors in both fiction and nonfiction film. Their collaboration from 1962 until David’s death in 1987 wrought thirteen major works in ... Read more
Boldly signifying the cultural issues of the 1960s and 1970s in groundbreaking pieces such as Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter, and Showman, filmmakers and brothers David and Albert Maysles used an approach to documentary film that involved spontaneous observation of naturally occurring events. With no rehearsed footage and no preconceived plots, their revolutionary work eschewed the authoritative voice-over narrator, didactic scripts, and the traditional problem-and-solution format used by the majority of their predecessors in the genre and duly influenced subsequent directors in both fiction and nonfiction film. Their collaboration from 1962 until David’s death in 1987 wrought thirteen major works in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809330096
SKU
V9780809330096
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About Jonathan B. Vogels
Jonathan B. Vogels is the head of the Upper School at Colorado Academy in Denver. He has written extensively about secondary education, as well as documentary films.
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