Documentary dilemmas :: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies /

A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Co...

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1. Verfasser: Anderson, Carolyn, 1939-
Weitere Verfasser: Benson, Thomas W.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1991.
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Zusammenfassung:A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967. This account of the Titicut Follies case is based on ten years of research and relies on interviews, journalistic accounts, and especially on the legal record, including the Commonwealth v. Wiseman transcript, to describe the entire process of independent documentary filmmaking. The trials of Titicut Follies raise crucial questions about the relation of social documentary to its subjects and audiences.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.
ISBN:0585108072
9780585108070
9780809382927
080938292X

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