Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties

by Dave Saunders

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905674163
• ISBN13: 9781905674169
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher