ReFocus : : The Films of Barbara Kopple /

ReFocus : : The Films of Barbara Kopple / / Jeff Jaeckle, Susan Ryan.

A collection of critical essays on Barbara Kopple: director, documentarian and female filmmaking pioneerAs the first woman to win two Best Documentary Oscars and the recipient of numerous lifetime achievement awards, Barbara Kopple deserves scholarly attention. Two of her early documentaries, Harlan...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Jaeckle, Jeff,
Ryan, Susan,
MitwirkendeR:
Aufderheide, Patricia,
Baron, Jaimie,
Brown, Gregory,
Corner, John,
Grindon, Leger,
Hearst, Kate,
Jaeckle, Jeff,
Kaplan, E. Ann,
McIntosh, Heather,
McLane, Betsy A.,
Nichols, Bill,
Palmer, Augusta,
Rabinowitz, Paula,
Ryan, Susan,
Zaniello, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Foreword
  • CHAPTER 1 Barbara Kopple: A Career of Personal Crises and Creative Tensions
  • Part I Historical Contexts and Cultural Commentary
  • CHAPTER 2 Harlan County, USA and the Documentary Form: A Forty-year Retrospective
  • CHAPTER 3 American Dream in God’s Country: Odysseys in Documentary, Hospitality, Place
  • CHAPTER 4 The Kopple Effect: Women Directing Documentaries
  • CHAPTER 5 Gender Agency: Harlan County, USA, Shut Up & Sing!, and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
  • CHAPTER 6 The Peekskill Projects: Race, Riots, and Paul Robeson
  • CHAPTER 7 Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple
  • Part II Technique: Interviews, Music, Funding, and Fiction Filmmaking
  • CHAPTER 8 Fallen Champ: Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview
  • CHAPTER 9 Which Side Are You On? An Intersectional Approach to Music in Three Films by Barbara Kopple
  • CHAPTER 10 Blurring Lines and Intersecting Realities in Barbara Kopple’s Fictional Work
  • CHAPTER 11 Kopple’s Work within the Changing Documentary Business Ecology
  • CHAPTER 12 Exposing the Lethal Gaze in Shut Up & Sing! and Running from Crazy
  • Part III Impacts: Critical Reception and Ongoing Influence
  • CHAPTER 13 Barbara Kopple: Acolyte to Leading Light
  • CHAPTER 14 Kopple and her Critics
  • Afterword: Getting Inside
  • Index

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