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Stranger with a Camera

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Producer(s)	Dee Davis
Director(s)	Elizabeth Barret
Release Date	2000
Work In Progress	n
Runtime	54 min
Youth Media	n

Film Description

In the coal-mining heart of Appalachia’s poverty belt “where residents have felt alternately aided and assaulted by media exposure the 1967 murder of filmmaker Hugh O’Connor still stirs strong community feelings. O’Connor was in the area during the War on Poverty gathering images for a film and was killed by landowner Hobart Ison. Barret turns the story of this tragic confrontation into an interrogation of the media itself and its relationship to public knowledge and private dignity as well as a meditation on Appalachia’s place in the American imagination.”

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Last Updated On:	February 08, 2012