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This 6 page paper analyzes the D.A. Pennebaker film: Don't Look Back. It is analyzed for content, structure, effects used, filmography and intent. A brief overview of the film which includes quotes from Pennebaker are included. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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this film is that for those who supposedly never sold out to the establishment there are suspicious comments and scenes that show how Bob Dylan and Joan Baez may have,
toward the end of their rise to fame, done exactly that. However, this films theme would seem to be that of a physical symbol of the sixties in the life
and times of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. At the beginning of the film Joan seems to figure more prominently than at the end of the film. Both Baez
and Dylan are at the height of their careers already at the point in which this film begins. Consisting largely of archival footage, voiced over commentaries by Dylan, himself,
and a few contrived scenes with various celebrities, this film does a fairly accurate job of portraying the overall thumb your nose at society attitude that was prevalent during this
time. Consider that America was also at her apex. The sexual revolution was going full blast and accompanying this revolution was a global view that America was THE place
to be and better than anyone else. If you werent American you were a loser, and if you were American and over fifty, you were a phony. This attitude is
depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perpetual adolescent angst in which the
world revolves around him and his music. This was also very typical of the United States during this time. There are sequences that show impromtu jam sessions where Dylan gives
his version of several Hank Williams songs, and Joan does Bobs songs in her own fashion, as well as joining in on some Hank Williams songs. These idyllic scenes are
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