Frederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public
institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local
governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and
museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman's
work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such as In
Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall
(2020) all earning widespread acclaim. Voyages of Discovery is the
definitive account of Wiseman's career, offering a comprehensive
analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the
United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new
material exploring the documentarian's works since the 1990s,
discussing every film in Wiseman's remarkable sixty-year career. He
examines the core concerns running across Wiseman's work from the
early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure,
through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and
ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He
pays particular attention to Wiseman's strategies for involving and
implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films
document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the
documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the
relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of
Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wiseman's
work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared
civic life.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Nonfictions |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Authors: |
Barry Keith Grant
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
400 |
| Edition: |
revised and expanded edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-20623-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-231-20623-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780231206235 |
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