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Performing the real through the lens of a renowned innovator of documentary filmmaking

Trade Review

"A welcome addition to the Contemporary Film Directors Series."--Documentary


"Filled with useful historical and technical details, this enthusiastic study of one of documentary cinema's most important filmmakers will convert some skeptics and create many new admirers of D.A. Pennebaker's work."

--Joe McElhaney, author of Albert Maysles
"Enlightening. . . . A useful look at the work of an affable, masterful documentary filmmaker who somehow managed to be in the midst of some of the major cultural turning points of the twentieth centrury."-- Journal of Film and Video

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments PERFORMING THE REAL Concert / Film; Collaborative / Filmmaking; Portraiture; Rehearsal INTERVIEW WITH D.A.PENNEBAKER Filmography; Bibliography; Index

D.A. Pennebaker

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      Publisher MO - University of Illinois Press
      Published 9/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780252036590
      978-0252036590
      ISBN-10 025203659X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Performing the real through the lens of a renowned innovator of documentary filmmaking

      Trade Review

      "A welcome addition to the Contemporary Film Directors Series."--Documentary


      "Filled with useful historical and technical details, this enthusiastic study of one of documentary cinema's most important filmmakers will convert some skeptics and create many new admirers of D.A. Pennebaker's work."

      --Joe McElhaney, author of Albert Maysles
      "Enlightening. . . . A useful look at the work of an affable, masterful documentary filmmaker who somehow managed to be in the midst of some of the major cultural turning points of the twentieth centrury."-- Journal of Film and Video

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments PERFORMING THE REAL Concert / Film; Collaborative / Filmmaking; Portraiture; Rehearsal INTERVIEW WITH D.A.PENNEBAKER Filmography; Bibliography; Index

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