Considering the upheaval that took place in America during the 1960s, it's not surprising that the decade also marked a change of attitude in many Hollywood filmmakers. Movies began tackling more ...
One of the most talked about films at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, “The Janes,” is a documentary that focuses on a collective of women in Chicago who broke the law in the late 1960s and early ’70s ...
The prime exemplars of modern documentary, centered on filmmakers’ close involvement with their subjects, are fundamentally transactional. They depend on the willingness of participants to let the ...
Director Robert Kolodny talks about what he learned from documentary masters Frederick Wiseman, Albert Maysles, and D.A. Pennebaker and how he applied it to his stunningly convincing narrative film.
The 1960s were a time of cultural upheaval for society in general, but also within the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican II Council, which ran from 1962-1965, enacted liberalizing reforms intended to ...
Students view an excerpt from the Motown Amp investigation in which they learn about bassist James Jamerson and the role of Motown Records in the Civil Rights Movement. They then analyze Motown’s role ...
""This volume is published on the occasion of the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 29-November 14, 2010"- ...
The 1960s were an era of great cultural change in the United States. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing, the Vietnam War ignited protests across the country, and rock and roll was king of the ...