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The reality of documentary as
a distinct and significant art form arises
clearly from Paul Rotha's biography,
Robert J. Flaherty, edited by Jay
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pioneer filmmaker's life and work, and
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The problems of adapting ju¬
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viewers' subconscious mental process
is explored by Dee Burton in I Dream
of Woody Allen, a collection of inter¬
views with 80 randomly chosen people
who dreamed of the actor. Burton inter¬
prets their dreams as a search for
meaning in a shallow world, the basis
for the universality of Allen's appeal
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Burt Lancaster, is an

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How Woody Allen affects the

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Robert Windeler's

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In Peter O'Toole, Nicholas

Wapshott deftly captures the actor's ec¬
centric personality and often unpredict¬
able behavior. From Oscar-winning

July 1984

in-depth survey of 65 signifi¬
cant scripters includes such names as
Mel Brooks, Carl Foreman, Nunnally

ters, an

Johnson, Herman Mankiewicz, Dalton
Tumbo and Billy Wilder. Each entry

comprises a perceptive essay on the
writer's literary and visual style, and full
credits (Gale Besearch, Detroit, $80).
In The

Film

Year Book

1984, editor Al Clark assembles

re¬

views of all US and UK features pro¬
duced during the previous year.

Entertaining and well documented, it
contains credits and synopses, book re¬
views, obits, quotes of the year, notable
film flops, newcomers to the screen,
and various other reference items

(Grove, New York, $12.95).
An annotated filmography by
Marsha Hamilton McClintock, The
Middle East and North Africa On
Films covers 2460 English language
and English-subtitled films and tapes

produced between 1903 and 1980. It is
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invaluable reference

source

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ciology and ethnology, and the ArabIsraeli conflict (Garland, New York.
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