Five Films by Frederick Wiseman

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9780520938700
ISBN-13 : 0520938704
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Download or read book Five Films by Frederick Wiseman written by Frederick Wiseman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 transcripts enable 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 Barry Keith Grant’s critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wiseman’s documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.

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