Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Beattie, Keith, 1954-
2. Maysles, Albert
3. Maysles, David

Description

1. xxxix, 188 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately, discuss all aspects of their filmmaking--the nature of collaboration, technical matters, contextual considerations, and more. They recount a personal history of cinema verite and modern documentary filmmaking.
2. The prolific joint career of the brothers has defined documentary filmmaking in the United States. From their first films in the late 1950s until the recent films of Albert Maysles (b.1926), the brothers' pioneering development of the "direct cinema," or cinema verite, style of documentary filmmaking has significantly altered the ways in which the world appears in nonfiction representations. Their influential movies--including the early feature Salesman, the renowned rock concert film Gimme Shelter, and the dual biography Grey Gardens--have affected the aesthetics of fiction filmmaking as well. Since the death of David Maysles (1931-1987), Albert Maysles has continued to make films and has further contributed to the development of the documentary form. --Book Jacket.

Series statement

1. Conversations with filmmakers series

Uniform title

1. Conversations with filmmakers series.

Subject

1. Motion picture producers and directors
2. Maysles, Albert
3. Maysles, Albert > Interviews
4. United States
5. Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Interviews
6. Interviews
7. Maysles, David > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Contents

1. Albert and David Maysles / Mark Shivas -- The Maysles Brothers and "direct cinema" / Maxine Haleff -- A discussion with the Maysles Brothers / James Blue -- An interview with the Maysles Brothers / Jonas Mekas -- A interview with Albert and David Maysles / Bob Sitton -- Salesman / Alan Rosenthal -- Circumstantial evidence : an interview with David and Albert Maysles / Robert Phillip Kolker -- Seeking to take the longest journey : a conversation with Albert Maysles / Calvin Pryluck -- Who's who in filmmaking : Albert Maysles / Judith Trojan -- "Doco direct" et al / -- Jane Castle -- Real artists shoot "real farmers" / Brooke Comer -- The making of concert of wills : making the Getty Center / Ann Hassett -- Man of the people / Brooke Comer -- Albert Maysles : all you need is love / Jackson Pellow -- Stories that tell themselves / Anne S. Lewis -- Albert Maysles / Liz Stubbs -- The force of reality in direct cinema : an interview with Albert Maysles / Sharon Zuber -- Maysles on DIFF, Castro, flies on walls, and the poetic eye / Marty Mapes -- Albert Maysles / Shana Liebman -- "A Bible salesman or the Rolling Stones : they're all just people" / Geoffrey Macnab -- Uncontrolled cinema : Albert Maysles / Williams Cole -- Reel life / Lance Avery Morgan.

Call number

1. MWES (Maysles, A.) 10-5346

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes filmography and index.

Title

1. Albert and David Maysles : interviews / edited by Keith Beattie.

Imprint

1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Conversations with filmmakers series
2. Conversations with filmmakers series.

Bibliography

1. Includes filmography and index.

Added author

1. Beattie, Keith, 1954- editor.
2. Maysles, Albert, interviewee.
3. Maysles, David, interviewee.

Other form:

1. Online version: Albert and David Maysles. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010 (OCoLC)768194815

LCCN

1. 2009019924

ISBN

1. 9781604733648 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2. 1604733640 (cloth ; alk. paper)
3. 9781604733655 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
4. 1604733659 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. MWES (Maysles, A.) 10-5346