{"product_id":"d-a-pennebaker-9781496857927","title":"D. A. Pennebaker","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (19252019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made documentary films that revealed the world of politics, celebrity culture, and the music industry. Following his early collaborations with Robert Drew on a number of works for television, his feature-length portrait of Bob Dylan on tour in England in 1965 (the landmark film Dont Look Back) established so-called direct cinema as a form capable of achieving broad theatrical release. With Monterey Pop, Pennebaker inaugurated the popular mode of rock concert film (or rockumentary), a style of filmmaking he expanded on through a number of films, including Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Depeche Mode: 101.    Pennebaker always regarded collaboration as an integral part of his filmmaking methods. His long-running collaboration with Richard Leacock and subsequently his work with Chris Hegedus en","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409271595351,"sku":"9781496857927","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496857927.jpg?v=1730506234","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/d-a-pennebaker-9781496857927","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}