The direct cinema of David and Albert Maysles /

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Filmmakers David and Albert Maysles utilized an approach to documentary film that involved spontaneous observation of naturally occurring events. Their collaboration wrought 13 works and their style helped usher in a probing, realistic form of documentary. This is a full-length treatment of their ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vogels, Jonathan B., 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Maysles, David > Criticism and interpretation.
Maysles, Albert > Criticism and interpretation.
Maysles, Albert
Maysles, David
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Direct cinema and the Maysles brothers
  • Celebrity and authenticity : the films of 1962-1966
  • Salesman and the limits of language
  • Can we see how they look? : observing the Rolling Stones in Gimme shelter
  • Working within the limitation of reality : the Christo films
  • Looking into Grey Gardens
  • Taking direct cinema into the 1980s.

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