Charles Burnett: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series),Used

Charles Burnett: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series),Used

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About the AuthorRobert E. Kapsis is professor emeritus of sociology and film studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation. He is also editor of Nichols and May: Interviews; Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated; Jonathan Demme: Interviews; and Conversations with Steve Martin and coeditor (with Kathie Coblentz) of Clint Eastwood: Interviews; Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated; and Woody Allen: Interviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi.Product DescriptionCharles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this countrys finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and To Sleep with Anger (1990), are considered classics, yet few filmgoers have seen them or heard of Burnett. The interviews in this volume explore this paradox and collectively shed light on the work of a rare film master whose stories bring to the screen the texture and poetry of life in the black community.The best qualities of Burnetts filmsrich characterizations, morally and emotionally complex narratives, and intricately observed tales of African American lifeare precisely the things that make his films a tough sell in the mass marketplace. As many of the interviews reveal, Hollywood has been largely inept in responding to this marketing challenge. It takes an extraordinary effort to keep going, Burnett told Terrence Rafferty in 2001, when everybodys saying to you, No one wants to see that kind of movie, or Theres no black audience. All the interviews selected for this volumespanning more than three decades of Burnetts directorial career, including his recent workexamine, in various degrees, Burnetts status as a true independent filmmaker and explore his motivation for making films that chronicle the black experience in America.

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