Frederick Wiseman's Books

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman

Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

By: Frederick Wiseman

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Five Films by Frederick Wiseman

Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

By: Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman’s most important films— Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing—providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films’ complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman’s cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grant’s critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wiseman’s documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.

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Univ of California Press

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0520938704

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9780520938700

English Bloods

In the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878

By: Frederick de la Fosse

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English Bloods

In the Backwoods of Muskoka, 1878

By: Frederick de la Fosse

An illuminating and humorous biographical account of the "English Bloods" young men sent to learn farming skills in Muskoka in pioneer times.

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223

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Dundurn

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1896219969

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9781896219967

Saturated Heterocyclic Chemistry Volume 3

By: Martin Frederick Ansell,G. Pattenden

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Saturated Heterocyclic Chemistry Volume 3

By: Martin Frederick Ansell,G. Pattenden

Annotation. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research. Written by experts in their specialist fields the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, supplying regular critical in-depth accounts of progress in particular areas of chemistry. Fro over 90 years The Royal Society of chemistry and its predecessor, the Chemical Society, have been publishing reports charting developments in chemistry, which originally took the form of Annual Reports. However, by 1967 the whole spectrum of chemistry could no longer be contained within one volume and the series Specialist Periodical Reports was born. The Annual Reports themselves still existed but were divided into two, and subsequently three, volumes covering Inorganic, Organic, and Physical Chemistry. For more general coverage of the highlights in chemistry they remain a 'must'. Since that time the SPR series has altered according to the fluctuating degree of activity in various fields of chemistry. Some titles have remained unchanged, while others have altered their emphasis along with their titles; some have been combined under a new name whereas others have had to be discontinued. The current list of Specialist Periodical Reports can be seen on the inside flap of this volume.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0851865623

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9780851865621

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859

By: Charles Darwin,Frederick Burkhardt

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 7, 1858-1859

By: Charles Darwin,Frederick Burkhardt

The letters in this volume cover two of the most momentous years in Darwin's life. Begun in 1856 and the fruit of twenty years of study and reflection, Darwin's manuscript on the species question was a little more than half finished, and at least two years from publication, when in June 1858 Darwin unexpectedly received a letter and a manuscript from Alfred Russel Wallace indicating that he too had independently formulated a theory of natural selection. The letters detail the various stages in the preparation of what was to become one of the world's most famous works: Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, published by John Murray in November 1859. They reveal the first impressions of Darwin's book given by his most trusted confidants, and they relate Darwin's anxious response to the early reception of his theory by friends, family members, and prominent naturalists. This volume provides the capstone to Darwin's remarkable efforts for more than two decades to solve one of nature's greatest riddles - the origin of species.

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