Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman

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SIU Press, 1989 - 404 pages
 

Contents

Reality Fictions and the Rhetoric of Documentary
1
Documentary Dilemmas The Trials of Titicut Follies
9
The Politics of the Double Bind High School
107
Narrative without Story Basic Training
147
Psychology Religion and Law as Social Order Essene and Juvenile Court
201
Justifying Curiosity Primate
229
Good Films from Bad Rules The Ethics of Naming in Welfare
247
Standing on Ceremony Believing as Seeing in Canal Zone
271
Materialism and Symbolic Action The Store
283
Lets Talk When Im Eighty Reality Fiction in Midcareer
303
Filmography
317
Notes
329
Bibliography
375
Index
393
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