Picture This!: A Guide to over 300 Environmentally, Socially, and Politically Relevant Films and Videos - Softcover

Hiatt, Sky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879360055 ISBN 13: 9781879360051

Publisher: Noble Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Summarizes and reviews films addressing such social issues as racism, poverty, political oppression, and environmental destruction, and includes documentaries, foreign films, and Academy award winners

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Reviews

Film critic and social activist Hiatt offers one-page critical summaries of both classic ( Intolerance ) and modern ( Come See the Paradise ) motion pictures on such topics as race, war, and poverty, with mixed results. Although broad in scope, the collection scants some areas (e.g., lesbian/gay films) in favor of others (e.g., World War II films). In addition, while Hiatt includes neglected features from around the world, the reader will not find such major works as Shoah or Seven Beauties . Still, this is a useful companion to Kevin Brownlow's Behind the Mask of Innocence ( LJ 10/15/90), Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art ( LJ 9/15/74), and the numerous excellent topical studies. Recommended for public and academic libraries supporting video collections.
-Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ. Lib., Tex.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Noble Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1879360055
• ISBN 13: 9781879360051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390