| have included an extensive chronology of Titicut Follies, which appears as an appendix. We offer this analysis of the film's history as a case study in independent documentary film making, and in the legal, ethical, aesthetic, and rhetorical issues that the case has raised. |
| In the years during which we have developed the various parts of this book, many colleagues and students have offered encouragement and advice. Fern Johnson, Jack Shadoian, Hermann Stelzner, and Richard Stromgren of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst commented on early drafts. Other colleagues and students, a group too large to identify individually, have encouraged us with questions and suggestions, and we deeply appreciate their support. This project was partially funded by grants from the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Speech Communication at The Pennsylvania State University and by a faculty research grant from the University of Massachusetts. Our department chairs and deansfirst Robert Brubaker and Stanley Paulson and then Dennis Gouran and Hart Nelsen from Penn State, and Barnett Pearce and Glen Gordon from U-Massprovided additional support. The manuscript for this book was edited on the mainframe computer system at Penn State and relied during its preparation on Bitnet, an interuniversity electronic mail system. For computer assistance at our universities, we thank Glen Kreider, Donald Laird, William McCane, Tom Minsker, Gerald Santoro, William Verity (Penn State), and Pat Driscoll Kochin, Kevin Jordan, Serafin Mendez, Michael Morgan, and Judy Smith (U-Mass). The text was entered on the Penn State mainframe computer in the Waterloo SCRIPT formatting language, which produced a manuscript for revisions and copy editing. Then SCRIPT was used to produce a PostScript file that was sent to an Apple NTX LaserWriter, to create page proofs. Once the page proofs were approved, a PostScript file was used to run camera ready pages at a resolution of 1240 dpi on Penn State's Linotronic 300 Typesetter. We are grateful to Tom Minsker, who devoted many days of computer consulting to the job of setting the text of this book on the mainframe computer at Penn State. Wayne McMullen and Joe Gow each spent a summer as our research assistants at Penn State. We also thank Catherine Egan, Larry Fay, Phil Green, Richard Halgin, James Hallowell, Ronald P. Johnson, Jeff Kaplan, P. J. O'Connell, Anne O'Toole, David Robinson, Jay Ruby, Len Sicbert, Sylvia Snape, John Stacey, Barbara Sweeney, and Judy Trochi. |
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