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Book Review: Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0
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Book Reviews - Jul 15, 2008 12:40 - 1 Comment
Book Review: Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0
Coming Soon!
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New Documentary: Man On Wire
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. [1]
He used a 450 pound cable to do so and also a custom made 26 foot long, 55 pound balancing pole. Tight-rope walker, unicyclist, magician and pantomime artist, Philippe Petit was also one of the earliest modern day street jugglers in Paris in 1968. He juggled and worked on a slack rope with regularity in Washington Square Park in New York City in the early 1970s. Petit is one of the Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Other famous structures he has used for tightrope walks include that Cathedral, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Louisiana Superdome, and between the Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower. Petit currently lives in Woodstock, New York. A documentary film named “Man on Wire” by UK director James Marsh dealing with Petit’s WTC performance won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Filmfestival 2008. The film also won awards at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C.
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I used much of “Documenting the Documentary” in a Film Studies Class, and found the anthology of works to be generally of the highest caliber. While there were one or two inclusions which sensationalized certain aspects of a particular film beyond the bounds of legitimate scholarship, ie, the chapter on the “Triumph of the Will”, overall, the compilation strengthens the fledgling students understanding of the evolution and methods of Documentary Film.