Burden of Dreams

Burden of Dreams is a skewed version of a Hollywood documentary genre formed in the Sixties: "behind the scenes" accounts of the making of major motion pictures. Blank's Burden of Dreams has the distinction of being the first of these productions to question the ethics of sensationali...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cinéaste (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 1983, Vol.12 (4), p.54-54
1. Verfasser: Shafransky, Renée
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Burden of Dreams is a skewed version of a Hollywood documentary genre formed in the Sixties: "behind the scenes" accounts of the making of major motion pictures. Blank's Burden of Dreams has the distinction of being the first of these productions to question the ethics of sensationalist illusion-making-the first to exhibit a political consciousness about invading other cultures and risking lives in the service of "art," yet still be able to declare itself more entertaining than the feature it was born of.
ISSN:0009-7004