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Posted by EBerlin on October 9, 2007 at 20:17:53:
...with his misguided, "definitive" treatments, is that it can partly preempt the ability of other filmmakers to get funding in similar subject areas. The widely held, false idea that Burns had created a definitive jazz documentary history can only make it harder for others, with deeper understanding and more nuanced approaches, to get funding and support for additional projects on the subject. And it's hard to get funding for jazz films to begin with.