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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Connection
  name:
    name part: Clarke, Shirley
    name part: 1919-1997
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Allen, Lewis M.
    name part: 1922-2003
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  name:
    name part: Milestone Film & Video
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Fiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 1961
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (103 minutes)
  abstract: THE CONNECTION is one of the most vital, fascinating films of the American independent world. Created by a woman director, Shirley Clarke, at a time when they were in very short supply, the film shattered stereotypes in just about every conceivable way. And yet, the film remained unseen for many years. Shirley Clarke was a vital part of the burgeoning post-war American film movement. She was one of the first signers -- and the only woman -- of the New American Cinema manifesto in 1961. For her first feature film, she decided to take on a controversial play by Jack Gelber that was running off-Broadway. The Connection was a play within a play within a jazz concert. It portrayed a group of drug addicts, some of them jazz musicians, waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection. A producer and a writer, meanwhile, have entered their lives to study them and write a play about them. The brilliantly written Beat dialogue was blended with jazz music written by the great pianist Freddie Redd. Clarke changed the character of the writer to Jim Dunn, a young, preppy filmmaker out to make a name for himself by documenting the "scene." As Clarke was best friends with the hot new indie directors, she added a level of humor by poking fun at the cinema verit�e movement. She also chose to keep the play's one-set constriction, but she combined the French New Wave's mobile camera with a whirling choreography of movement and jazz to create an exciting, kinetic film that was acclaimed at the Cannes International Film Festival as a masterpiece. Yet even knowing the avant garde nature of the play and her film, little could Clarke recognize the furor the film was about to create. Although Hollywood had previously depicted drug addiction in the recent years, it was mostly of the good men gone bad scenario with tragic endings. THE CONNECTION, with the raw, graphic depiction of drug addicts that Gelber wrote for the stage, was a hit at Cannes. It was promptly banned by governm…
  target audience: adult
  note: produced by Lewis Allen & Shirley Clarke ; directed & edited by Shirley Clarke.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed December 08, 2016).
  note: Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphel, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee, Barbara Winchester, Henry Proach, Roscoe Browne, William Redfield ; musicians, Freddie Redd (piano), Jackie McLean (saxophone), Larry Ritchie (drums), Michael Mattos (bass).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Drug addicts
  subject:
    topic: Jazz musicians
  subject:
    topic: Drug addiction
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 161208
    record change date: 20260324205836.2
    record identifier: in00003944077
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng