Direct Cinema

Acknowledgements vi Introduction 'This is the account of a crisis': Direct Cinema in Context 1 PART ONE I FURTHERING FILM 1 Bringing Life to the Wasteland: The Beginnings of Direct Cinema 5 2 The New Frontier and Beyond: Direct Cinema's Search for a Subject 25 PART TWO I COUNTER-CULTURAL COMMENTARIES 3 Looking Forward (From an America Past to the American Modern) 57 4 Dancing on the Brink of the World 84 5 In Search of Elysium 99 6 Coming Down 126 PART THREE I FREDERICK WISEMAN'S SIXTIES 7 Wiseman and Civil Reform: Four Institutions 145 8 The System Fights Back 169 Conclusion Culture-Bound 189 Notes 193 Filmography 209 Bibliography 212 Index 231