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Salesman (Paperback)
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Salesman (Paperback)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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List price R396
Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
You Save R68 (17%)
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Selected by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant
American films ever made, Salesman (1966-9) is a landmark in
non-fiction cinema, equivalent in its impact and influence to
Truman Capote's 'non-fiction novel' In Cold Blood. The film follows
a team of travelling Bible salesmen on the road in Massachusetts,
Chicago, and Florida, where the American dream of self-reliant
entrepreneurship goes badly wrong for protagonist Paul Brennan.
Long acknowledged as a high-water mark of the 'direct cinema'
movement, this ruefully comic and quietly devastating film was the
first masterpiece of Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte
Zwerin, the trio who would go on to produce The Rolling Stones
documentary, Gimme Shelter (1970). Based on the premise that films
drawn from ordinary life could compete with Hollywood
extravaganzas, Salesman was critical in shaping 'the documentary
feature'. A novel cinema-going experience for its time, the film
was independently produced, designed for theatrical release and
presented without voiceover narration, interviews, or talking
heads. Working with innovative handheld equipment, and
experimenting with eclectic methods and a collaborative ethos, the
Maysles brothers and Zwerin produced a carefully-orchestrated
narrative drama fashioned from unexpected episodes. J. M. Tyree
suggests that Salesman can be understood as a case study of
non-fiction cinema, raising perennial questions about reality and
performance. His analysis provides an historical and cultural
context for the film, considering its place in world cinema and its
critical representations of dearly-held national myths. The style
of Salesman still makes other documentaries look static and
immobile, while the film's allegiances to everyday subjects and
working people indelibly marked the cinema. Tyree's insightful
study also includes an exclusive exchange with Albert Maysles about
the film.
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