Voyages of Discovery : : The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman / / Barry Keith Grant.

• VerfasserIn: Grant, Barry Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Nonfictions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 75 film stills

Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman’s work has reached a new level of popularity, with f...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
• 2. AMERICAN MADNESS: TITICUT FOLLIES (1967), HIGH SCHOOL (1968), LAW AND ORDER (1969), HOSPITAL (1970), JUVENILE COURT (1973), WELFARE (1975)
• 3. THE BIG PARADE: BASIC TRAINING (1971), MANOEUVRE (1979), MISSILE (1988)
• 4. BLOOD OF THE BEASTS: PRIMATE (1974), MEAT (1976), RACETRACK (1985), ZOO (1993)
• 5. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE: CANAL ZONE (1977), SINAI FIELD MISSION (1978), MODEL (1980), THE STORE (1983)
• 6. THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: THE COOL WORLD (1963), SERAPHITA’S DIARY (1982)
• 7. YOU AND ME: ESSENE (1972), BLIND (1986), DEAF (1986), ADJUSTMENT AND WORK (1986), MULTI-HANDICAPPED (1986), ASPEN (1991)
• 8. LOVE AND DEATH: NEAR DEATH (1989)
• 9. THE NEVER-ENDING STORY: HIGH SCHOOL II (1994), PUBLIC HOUSING (1997), DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (2001), DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 2 (2002)
• 10. PLAYTIME: BALLET (1995), LA COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE, OU L’AMOUR JOUÉ (1996), THE LAST LETTER (2002), LA DANSE—LE BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE PARIS (2009), BOXING GYM (2010), CRAZY HORSE (2011), NATIONAL GALLERY (2014), UN COUPLE (2022)
• 11. OUR TOWN: CENTRAL PARK (1989), BELFAST, MAINE (1999), STATE LEGISLATURE (2006), AT BERKELEY (2013), IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (2015), EX-LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (2017), MONROVIA, INDIANA (2018), CITY HALL (2020)
• Filmography
• Individual Awards
• Retrospective Screenings
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index