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Title: Voyages of Discovery
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0231206232
EAN: 9780231206235
ISBN: 9780231206235
Edition: revised and expanded edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Genre: Films & TV
Release Date: 05/16/2023
Description: 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 films such as In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020) all earning widespread acclaim.

Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Wiseman’s career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian’s works since the 1990s, discussing every film in Wiseman’s remarkable sixty-year career. He examines the core concerns running across Wiseman’s work from the early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure, through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He pays particular attention to Wiseman’s strategies for involving and implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wiseman’s work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared civic life.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Book Series: Nonfictions
Language: English
Release Year: 2023

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