Barbara Kopple (eBook)

Interviews

Gregory Brown (Herausgeber)

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2015 | EPUB Single
192 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-62674-569-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Collected interviews with the director of such films as Harlan County, U.S.A. and Gun Fight

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With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from labor union documentaries to fictional feature films to an educational series for kids on the Disney Channel. Through it all, Kopple has generously made herself available for a great many print and broadcast interviews. The most revealing and illuminating of these are brought together in this collection.Here, Kopple explains her near-constant struggles to raise money (usually while her films are already in production) and the hardships arising from throwing her own money into such projects. She makes clear the tensions between biases, objectivity, and fairness in her films. Her interviewers raise fundamental questions. What is the relationship between real people in documentaries and characters in fictional films? Why does she embrace a cinema verite style in some films but not others? Why does she seem to support gun ownership in Harlan County, U.S.A., only to take a decidedly more neutral view of the issue in her film Gun Fight?Kopple's concern for people facing crises is undeniable. So is the affection she has for her more famous subjects--Woody Allen playing a series of European jazz concerts, Gregory Peck on tour, and the Dixie Chicks losing a fan base but making a fresh start.

Autor

lt;b>Gregory Brown is assistant professor of mass media at Valdosta State University. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he has served as a juror for the Broadcast Education Association's annual student documentary film festival as well as a member of the screening committee of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Reihe/Serie: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Schlagworte: A&E • American dream • armour • beautiful girls • beyond jfk • Biography • black lung • Black Sunday • brookside mine • Cabin Creek Films • CMT • Dixie Chicks • Documentary • Editing • Ernest Hemmingway • Film Festival • filmmaking • Film Studies • film technique • Harlan County, U.S.A. • HBO • High School Musical • historical element • KKK • Ku Klux Klan • michael lang • minor movement • My Generation • political filmmaking • portrayal in documentary • Portrayal of Women • Production • Propaganda • propaganda films • Reality • Release • Screening • social-change films • Spike Lee • the bettle of algiers • Theme • unionism • United Mine Workers of America • Violence • Winter Soldier • Woody Allen
• ISBN-10: 1-62674-569-2 / 1626745692
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62674-569-8 / 9781626745698