Sidewalk [videorecording] / a film by Mitchell Duneier & Barry Alexander Brown with photographs by Ovie Carter.
2007
HF5459.U6 S33 2007
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Title
Sidewalk [videorecording] / a film by Mitchell Duneier & Barry Alexander Brown with photographs by Ovie Carter.
ISBN
0374973555
9780374973551
9780374973551
Publication Details
[s.l. : s.n.] , c2007.
Language
English
Description
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number
HF5459.U6 S33 2007
Summary
It has been a decade and a half since a streetcorner book vendor and intellectual named Hakim Hasan introduced Mitchell Duneier to the people he came to write about in the book Sidewalk (1999). Now Duneier has collaborated with director Barry Alexander Brown and photographer Ovie Carter to provide a visual presentation that begins where the book ended. It updates the stories of Ron, Mudrick, Ishmael, Butteroll, and other unhoused vendors on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, showing what happened as they struggled in the wake of new economic and political realities, including those associated with September 11, 2001. It also contains footage from an interview Duneier did with Jane Jacobs, her last before she died in 2006. The DVD also contains a panel discussion about the film with Cornel West and Kim Hopper at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting; and Duneier's introductory lecture on ethnographic method, in which two sidewalk vendors visit his Princeton class.
Credits
Written by Mitchell Duneier, directed by Barry Alexander Brown, photography, Ovie Carter.
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DVD.
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Title from opening frames.
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Table of Contents
Sidewalk (60 min) - Method: Sidewalk and ethnography(50 min) - Vendors visit Mitch Duneier's class(22 min) - Commentary by Kim Hopper(18 min) - Commentary by Cornel West(15 min)