Albert and David Maysles: Interviews by Keith Beattie PAPERBACK 9781604733655

Albert and David MayslesInterviews\nAuthor(s): Keith Beattie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781604733655, 978-1604733655\nSynopsis\nIn Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately, discuss all aspects of their filmmaking--the nature of collaboration, technical matters, contextual considerations, and more. They recount a personal history of cinma vrit and modern documentary filmmaking. The prolific joint career of the brothers has defined documentary filmmaking in the United States. From their first films in the late 1950s until the recent films of Albert Maysles (b. 1926), the brothers' pioneering development of the \""\""direct cinema,\""\"" or cinma vrit, style of documentary filmmaking has significantly altered the ways in which the world appears in nonfiction representations. Their infl.