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Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

Grant, Barry Keith
Wiseman, Frederick
Wiseman, Frederick

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Film Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 0520244575
ISBN13: 9780520244573
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 13 2006
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.84
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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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