Remembering Frederick Wiseman: the filmmaker who changed documentary cinema forever
- Written by Thomas Moran, Lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Adelaide University
Frederick Wiseman, who died yesterday at the age of 96, was an American filmmaker whose carefully observed works changed documentary cinema forever, shedding light on institutions, individuals and everyday life.
Born into a Jewish family in Boston in 1930, Wiseman studied law at Yale and then taught law at Boston University. At the same time, he...
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