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Meet the people
- Title
- Meet the people [videorecording] / produced by Shelly Silver.
- Publication
- New York : S. Silver, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2457 M | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Silver, Shelly.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (17 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- "The fictions of the self overtly concern Shelly Silver in her tour-de-force [tape]. In video verité style, she swiftly intercuts what appear to be her interviews of 14 individuals representing contemporary New York types: a cabby, a waitress, a housewife, a stripper, an Italian construction worker, a black army officer. At the end the credits reveal that all 14 are actors and all were apparently reading Silver's script. [Silver] dramatizes how deceptive, and entertaining are the canned characters of TV's supposed realism, from its man-in-the-street comments on the news to its casting of "real" people in commercials. Silver's fake documentary also asks what separates the individual from the stereotype and how we construct unique characters and sociological types - from what non-verbal cues of physiogomy, dress, accent, expression, etc., in addition to what is said."
- Subject
- Video art
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, writer, Shelly Silver; director of photography, John Kraus.
- Performer (note)
- Carol Weinstein, Gahan Haskins, Lisa Wo, Peter Onorati, Leila Kenzle, Lloyd T. Williams, Jeremiah Bosgang, Camille Marshall, Kurt Erickson, Maureen Curtin, Annie Rae Etheridge, Brenda Lynn Bynum, Elizabeth Rose, Rita Perrault.
- Title
- Meet the people [videorecording] / produced by Shelly Silver.
- Imprint
- New York : S. Silver, 1986.
- Credits
- Producer, director, writer, Shelly Silver; director of photography, John Kraus.
- Cast
- Carol Weinstein, Gahan Haskins, Lisa Wo, Peter Onorati, Leila Kenzle, Lloyd T. Williams, Jeremiah Bosgang, Camille Marshall, Kurt Erickson, Maureen Curtin, Annie Rae Etheridge, Brenda Lynn Bynum, Elizabeth Rose, Rita Perrault.
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- Added Author
- Silver, Shelly.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2457 M