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Product Description: Academy Awardâwinning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs...read more
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9781594203015 | Penguin Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $40.00
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9780143124252 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 27, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Academy Awardâwinning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor, called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonaldâs pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word âpigâ was written in blood on the headboard in the master bedroom. As MacDonald was being loaded into the ambulance, he accused a band of drug-crazed hippies of the crime.So began one of the most notorious and mysterious murder cases of the twentieth century. Jeffrey MacDonald was finally convicted in 1979 and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling booksâincluding Joe McGinnissâs Fatal Vision and Janet Malcolmâs The Journalist and the Murdererâand a blockbuster television miniseries have told their versions of the MacDonald case and what it all means.Errol Morris has been investigating the MacDonald case for over twenty years. A Wilderness of Error is the culmination of his efforts. It is a shocking book, because it shows us that almost everything we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable, and crucial elements of the case against MacDonald simply are not true. It is a masterful reinvention of the true-crime thriller, a book that pierces the haze of myth surrounding these murders with the sort of brilliant light that can only be produced by years of dogged and careful investigation and hard, lucid thinking. By this bookâs end, we know several things: that there are two very different narratives we can create about what happened at 544 Castle Drive, and that the one that led to the conviction and imprisonment for life of this man for butchering his wife and two young daughters is almost certainly wrong. Along the way Morris poses bracing questions about the nature of proof, criminal justice, and the media, showing us how MacDonald has been condemned, not only to prison, but to the stories that have been created around him. In this profoundly original meditation on truth and justice, Errol Morris reopens one of Americaâs most famous cases and forces us to confront the unimaginable. Morris has spent his career unsettling our complacent assumptions that we know what weâre looking at, that the stories we tell ourselves are true. This book is his finest and most important achievement to date.
Hardcover:
9781594203435 | Penguin Pr, September 4, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor, called the police for help.
Paperback:
9780143123699 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 22, 2014), cover price $18.00
Product Description: For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its unpredictable manifestations, particularly as it responds to institutional or regimented settings or to democracy at work...read more
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9780870707919 | Museum of Modern Art, December 15, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its unpredictable manifestations, particularly as it responds to institutional or regimented settings or to democracy at work.
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9780143115397 | Penguin USA, April 28, 2009, cover price $17.00
Hardcover:
9781594201325 | 1 edition (Penguin Pr, May 15, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's scandal-marked occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners.
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9788483067604 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, November 15, 2008), cover price $30.95
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9780312130572 | Griffin, November 1, 1995, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Tells the story of Ed Gein's gruesome and horrifying murders which later became the inspiration for books and films such as 'Psycho,' 'The Silence of the Lambs,' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'
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