Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

ISBN: 0520244575

Author: Wiseman, Frederick

Condition: New

Frederick Wiseman is among Americas foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wisemans most important films- Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing-providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wisemans cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grants critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wisemans documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.