CIN312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frederick Wiseman, Direct Cinema, Voyeurism
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Gimme shelter: a culmination in the stones" involvement with cinema. Most of their films were documentaries, further challenges to direct cinema. Envisioned in the mold of monterey pop and woodstock. But instead it marked a wider crisis in the rock counterculture"s social meaning. Gimme shelter: the failure of the 60s" best aspirations. The first: observational depiction of performances and events. The second: staged interviews wherein the band confront evidence. The latter foregrounds the material and social forms of direct cinema. Like direct cinema, he aims for unobtrusive observation. But he disavows conventional notions of tact (nichols, 16) Respect for privacy is sometimes cast aside. Viewers look at images in ways that suggest voyeurism . Viewers have several attitudes to these people (142); they judge them, laugh at them. Wiseman has a theory about northeast high school.
