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

Name: Five Films by Frederick Wiseman Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
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ISBN: 9780520244573

ISBN-10: 0520244575

ISBN-13: 9780520244573

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frederick Wiseman, Barry Keith Grant

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Alistair Fox holds a personal chair in the Department of English and is director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago.Barry Keith Grant is professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Titicut Follies (1967)


High School (1968)


Welfare (1975)


High School II (1994)


Public Housing (1997)


Filmography


Bibliography