
Direct Cinema - Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Dave Saunders(Author)
Wallflower Press
Published on 1. June 2007
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-905674-16-9 (ISBN)
Description
Direct Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inquisitiveness of filmmakers such as Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman-and predicated on innovations such as portable cameras and synchronized sound-direct cinema intimately documented presidential campaigns through the revelers of Woodstock and the dispossessed subjects of Wiseman's "reality fictions". This volume recovers these vastly influential yet politically underappreciated films, suggesting they represented a resurgence of America's home-grown philosophical tradition inextricably bound up in the artistic and political impulses of the 1960s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905674-16-9 (9781905674169)
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Dave Saunders is a visiting tutor at the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.