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Article: Stevie.
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- Film Comment
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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STEVE JAMES, U.S., 2003
In his introduction to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee rails, famously and fruitlessly, against the documentary endeavor. "It seems to me curious," he writes, "not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings ... to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings...." Agee was referring to his and Walker Evans's 1936 assignment from Fortune magazine--a document, in words and pictures, of the lives of Southern tenant cotton farmers--the project that would, incidentally or not, become the very book he was introducing.
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... ... Peter Gilbert; edited by Steve James and William Haugse ... Stephen Dale Fielding, Steve James, Verna Hagler, Bernice ... formal prohibitions. Steve James, codirector of the critical ... middle of the fray with Stevie, a troubling portrait ...
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