An American Family
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An intimate documentary of seven months in the real life of 'An American Family'. For seven months, the William Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, allowed their lives to be filmed, day in and day out. Three hundred hours of film were edited down into WNET's twelve-part series--perhaps the most controversial ever made. It is, as 'TIME' pointed out, "no Ozzie-and-Harriet confection". 'Saturday Review' found it "devastating in its unassailable truth". To Shana Alexander, writing in 'Newsweek', the show seemed "a genuine American tragedy, a glimpse into the pit". And famed anthropologist Margaret Mead described it as "a new kind of art form...as new and as significant as the invention of drama or the novel--a new way in which people can learn to look at life..." What the Louds did, she pointed out in 'TV Guide', "was to agree to lay their as-yet-unlived lives on the line--to share their personal joys and sorrows with millions of other human beings who, months later on TV, would watch that which the Louds had not yet experienced". Text prepared by Ron Goulart from the landmark WNET TV series with an introductory essay by Anne Roiphe, author of 'Up The Sandbox'.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0446780774
ISBN13:9780446780773
Release Date:June 1973
Publisher:Warner Paperback Library
Length:238 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.1" x 6.9"
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