Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High Sch

Description: Five Films by Frederick Wiseman by Barry Keith Grant, Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman is among Americas foremost documentary film-makers. Providing transcriptions of five of Wisemans most important films, this book enables readers to scrutinize the films complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wisemans cinema a rich repository of American speech. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Frederick Wiseman is among Americas 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 Wisemans 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 transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wisemans cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grants critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wisemans documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography. Flap "Barry Grant has created a monumental resource for the study of a monumental filmmaker. The transcripts of these five films have been meticulously constructed without compromising the vitality and energy that characterizes the films themselves. This book should be invaluable to film scholars for as long as the films of Fred Wiseman are viewed, discussed and dissected--which we now know will be a long time indeed."--Ross McElwee, Director, Shermans March and Bright Leaves "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 imagine his smile of pleasure when the man in Welfare compares his situation to Godot. Its not life imitating art, but a strange admixture of both where the boundary lines between the two are no longer visible. Ultimately, Wiseman has showed us that the ultimate institution is life itself, and properly speaking, we should all be institutionalized."--Errol Morris Author Biography 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 Fords Stagecoach (2002), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996), among other books. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Frederick Wiseman List of Illustrations Introduction Titicut Follies (1967) High School (1968) Welfare (1975) High School II (1994) Public Housing (1997) Filmography Bibliography Review "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 imagine his smile of pleasure when the man in Welfare compares his situation to Godot. Its not life imitating art, but a strange admixture of both where the boundary lines between the two are no longer visible. Ultimately, Wiseman has showed us that the ultimate institution is life itself, and properly speaking, we should all be institutionalized." - Errol Morris "Barry Grant has created a monumental resource for the study of a monumental filmmaker." - Ross McElwee, Director, Shermans March and Bright Leaves" Long Description Frederick Wiseman is among Americas 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 Wisemans 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 transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wisemans cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grants critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wisemans documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography. Details ISBN0520244575 Author Frederick Wiseman Short Title 5 FILMS BY FREDERICK WISEMAN Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520244575 ISBN-13 9780520244573 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 070.18 Year 2006 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing Country of Publication United States Edited by Barry Keith Grant Birth 1947 Edition 1st Place of Publication Berkerley Residence Toronto, -CN Illustrations 74 b-w photographs DOI 10.1604/9780520244573 UK Release Date 2006-03-13 AU Release Date 2006-03-13 NZ Release Date 2006-03-13 US Release Date 2006-03-13 Pages 448 Publication Date 2006-03-13 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159512617;

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