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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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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Direct Cinema - Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
• Author: Dave Saunders
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781905674169
• ISBN: 1905674163
• ID: 05025822
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 163 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2007

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