The films of Barbara Kopple / edited by Jeff Jaeckle and Susan Ryan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaeckle, Jeff, editor.

Ryan, Susan, editor.

Series:

ReFocus, the American directors series.

ReFocus, the American directors series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kopple, Barbara--Interviews.

Kopple, Barbara.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 30 B/W illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of critical essays on Barbara Kopple: director, documentarian and female filmmaking pioneerAs the first woman to win two Best Documentary Oscars and the recipient of numerous lifetime achievement awards, Barbara Kopple deserves scholarly attention. Two of her early documentaries, Harlan County USA and American Dream, not only won Academy Awards but are foundational within the study of documentary as a whole.In ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple, a range of international scholars trace Kopple’s career to date, analysing her contributions in the contexts of funding, style, production and reception, and examining her films’ interrogations of social class using the lenses of gender, sexuality and race. In a shifting digital media landscape, Kopple’s critical reputation is also assessed, alongside her enduring influence on contemporary filmmakers.ContributorsPatricia Aufderheide, American University in Washington, D.C. Jaimie Baron, University of Alberta and director of the Festival of (In)appropriationGregory Brown, Valdosta State University John Corner, Leeds University Leger Grindon, Middlebury College in VermontKate Hearst, historian, scholar and filmmakerJeff Jaeckle, Portland Community CollegeE. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook UniversityHeather McIntosh, Minnesota State University at MankatoBetsy A. McLane, independent scholar, author and Director Emerita of the International Documentary Association Bill Nichols, San Francisco State UniversityAugusta Palmer, filmmaker and St. Francis CollegePaula Rabinowitz, University of MinnesotaSusan Ryan, The College of New JerseyThomas Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

CHAPTER 1 Barbara Kopple: A Career of Personal Crises and Creative Tensions

Part I Historical Contexts and Cultural Commentary

CHAPTER 2 Harlan County, USA and the Documentary Form: A Forty-year Retrospective

CHAPTER 3 American Dream in God’s Country: Odysseys in Documentary, Hospitality, Place

CHAPTER 4 The Kopple Effect: Women Directing Documentaries

CHAPTER 5 Gender Agency: Harlan County, USA, Shut Up & Sing!, and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous

CHAPTER 6 The Peekskill Projects: Race, Riots, and Paul Robeson

CHAPTER 7 Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple

Part II Technique: Interviews, Music, Funding, and Fiction Filmmaking

CHAPTER 8 Fallen Champ: Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview

CHAPTER 9 Which Side Are You On? An Intersectional Approach to Music in Three Films by Barbara Kopple

CHAPTER 10 Blurring Lines and Intersecting Realities in Barbara Kopple’s Fictional Work

CHAPTER 11 Kopple’s Work within the Changing Documentary Business Ecology

CHAPTER 12 Exposing the Lethal Gaze in Shut Up & Sing! and Running from Crazy

Part III Impacts: Critical Reception and Ongoing Influence

CHAPTER 13 Barbara Kopple: Acolyte to Leading Light

CHAPTER 14 Kopple and her Critics

Afterword: Getting Inside

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3996-9

OCLC:

1148895731