Six O'Clock News (film)

Six O'Clock News
Six O'Clock News
	Six O'Clock News theatrical poster.
Directed by	Ross McElwee
Written by	Ross McElwee
Produced by	David Fanning; Ross McElwee; Robin Parmelee; Michael Sullivan
Starring	Ross McElwee ; Charleen Swansea; Yung Su An
Cinematography	Ross McElwee
Edited by	Ross McElwee
Distributed by	First Run Features
Release date	November 4, 1996;
Running time	103 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Six O'Clock News is a 1996 documentary film by Ross McElwee about television news in the United States, the randomness of fate, the anxiety of parenting, and the difference between representation and reality. The film is the subject of scholarly study.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Jeffrey Geiger (2011). "American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation". Edinburgh University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780748621477. In a lengthy shot from Ross McElwee's Six O'Clock News (1996), the camera scans a bridge destroyed by a hurricane, ... the film examines the blurred lines between first-hand experience and manufactured reality, closeness and distance.
^ Scott MacDonald (2013). "American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn". University of California Press. p. 223. ISBN 9780520954939. Retrieved 2016-12-23. The implicit angst McElwee feels sends him back to Charleen Swansea for the final sequence of Six O'Clock News, where he :films some good news for a change": the first visit of Charleen's granddaughter to her grandmother, on Easter weekend.

External links

Ross McElwee's web page
Six O'Clock News at IMDb
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[Projecting2011-1] Jeffrey Geiger (2011). "American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation". Edinburgh University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780748621477. In a lengthy shot from Ross McElwee's Six O'Clock News (1996), the camera scans a bridge destroyed by a hurricane, ... the film examines the blurred lines between first-hand experience and manufactured reality, closeness and distance.

[Ethnographic2013-2] Scott MacDonald (2013). "American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn". University of California Press. p. 223. ISBN 9780520954939. Retrieved 2016-12-23. The implicit angst McElwee feels sends him back to Charleen Swansea for the final sequence of Six O'Clock News, where he :films some good news for a change": the first visit of Charleen's granddaughter to her grandmother, on Easter weekend.

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