Five Films by Frederick Wiseman - Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing (Paperback, New)

"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, "Sherman's 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. It's 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

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	March 2006
Authors:	Frederick Wiseman
Editors:	Barry Keith Grant
Foreword by:	Frederick Wiseman
Contributors:	Barry Keith Grant
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24457-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
LSN:	0-520-24457-5
Barcode:	9780520244573

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