Reality Fictions
The Films of Frederick Wiseman
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-8093-2438-5 (ISBN)
Description
Providing in-depth accounts and close critical examinations of nine of Wiseman's films - ""Titicut Follies"", ""High School"", ""Basic Training"", ""Essene"", ""Juvenile Court"", ""Primate"", ""Welfare"", ""Canal Zone"" and ""The Store"" - this second edition features a new introduction, a revised and updated filmography and an updated bibliography.
Reviews / Votes
This is a rare marriage of film and rhetorical criticism, in which the authors pay intricate attention to cinematic technique, not for its own sake, but within the larger context of examining how the films work rhetorically. They are particularly concerned with how the audience is likely to interpret the films-with the various reading strategies that Wiseman seems to Invite in each one.... This is a very fine book for the serious student. It is a complex, intelligent, careful and continually insightful treatment of an arresting subject and ranks as an important contribution to the scholarship of film and rhetoric.-Quarterly Journal of SpeechMore details
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2438-5 (9780809324385)
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Persons
Thomas W. Benson is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric and Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. His many books include the edited volume, American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Carolyn Anderson is an associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Communications at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. With Thomas W. Benson, she is the author of Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies.