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American ethnographic film and personal documentary : the Cambridge turn / Scott MacDonald Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Call No: 769(73) MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Source: USPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2013PhysDes: viii, 415 pages : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES. USA ; MARSHALL, JOHN ; GARDNER, ROBERT ; ASCH, TIMOTHY ; PINCUS, ED ; WEINSTEIN, MIRIAM ; GUZZETTI, ALFRED ; MCELWEE, ROSS ; MOSS, ROBB ; DAVENPORT, NINA ; ASCHER, STEVEN ; JORDAN, JEANNE ; NEGROPONTE, MICHEL ; GIANVITO, JOHN ; OLCH, ALEXANDER ; SIEGEL, AMIE ; BARBASH, ILISA ; CASTAING-TAYLOR, LUCIEN Summary: "American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatism's focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century. "--ISBN: 9780520275621Contents: Machine generated contents note: A Tentative Overview of Boston-Area Documentary Filmmaking -- Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary -- Pragmatism: Learning from Experience -- The Mission of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn -- Subjects for Further Research -- Acknowledgments -- 1.Lorna and John Marshall -- Beginnings: Lorna Marshall and First Film -- John Marshall: The Hunters -- Idylls of the !Kung -- Pedagogy -- Expulsion from Eden: Bitter Melons and Nlai, the Story of a !Kung Woman -- The Pittsburgh Police Films and Brakhage's Eyes -- Putting Down the Camera and Picking Up the Shovel -- The Road Taken: A Kalahari Family -- A Process in Time -- 2.Robert Gardner -- East Coast/West Coast: Early Experiments -- Gardner and the Marshalls -- Dead Birds -- The Experience of Filmmaking as Thought Process -- Robert Fulton: Reality's Invisible---"Serious Playing Around" -- Screening Room: Midnight Movies -- City Symphony: Forest of Bliss --
Contents note continued: The Return of the Repressed: Ika Hands -- Still Journeying On: Unfinished Examinations of a Life -- Studio7Arts: Sharon Lockhart's Double Tide and Robert Fenz's Correspondence -- 3.Timothy Asch -- Dodoth Morning and the Ethnographic Deadpan -- Asch and the Yanomamo -- The Ax Fight -- 4.Ed Pincus and the Emergence of Personal Documentary -- The Miriam Weinstein Quartet and Richard P. Rogers's Elephants: Fragments of an Argument -- Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971--1976) -- Alfred Guzzetti: Family Portrait Sittings -- Guzzetti: It's a Small World -- Guzzetti: Time Exposure -- 5.Alfred Guzzetti and Personal Cinema -- Air -- Experimental Video: "Language Lessons" -- Scylla and Charybdis -- Still Point -- 6.Ross McElwee -- Finding a Muse: Charleen -- Finding a Voice: Ann Schaetzel's Breaking and Entering and McElwee's Backyard -- Doppleganger: Sherman's March -- Nesting Dolls: Time Indefinite -- On the Road Again: Six O'Clock News --
Contents note continued: Occupational Hazards: Bright Leaves -- Orpheus: In Paraguay and Photographic Memory -- 7.Robb Moss -- Riverdogs: A Possible Eden -- The Tourist: "Freelance Editing" -- Voyage of Life: The Same River Twice -- 8.Panorama: Other Approaches to Personal Documentary -- Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan: Families in Transition -- Michel Negroponte: Getting Involved -- Leacock and Lalonde -- The Subject Rebels: Nina Davenport's Films and Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's The Axe in the Attic -- The Political Is the Personal: John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind and Jeff Daniel Silva's Balkan Rhapsodies -- Alexander Olch's The Windmill Movie: "This Little Seance of Flickering Light" -- Amie Siegel's DDR/DDR -- 9.Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Sensory Ethnography -- Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and Sweetgrass -- "Sheeple": Castaing-Taylor's Audio-Video Installations --
Contents note continued: The Sensory Ethnography Lab: J. P. Sniadecki, Stephanie Spray, Verena Paravel, and Leviathan
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Avant-garde film : motion studies / Scott MacDonald Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Call No: 771.1 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: Cambridge [England] New York, NY, USAPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1993PhysDes: viii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge film classicsNotes: Includes index; Includes filmography (p. 189-194)ISBN: 052138821X (pbk.); 0521381290LON: 92017446; 9041822
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Cinema 16 : Documents Toward a History of the Film Society Part 1 in Wide Angle (January 1997) vol.19 iss.1 p.[whole issue]
Author: MacDonald, Scott PhysDes: ArticleSubject: CINEMA 16 ; SOCIETIES, FILM Summary: Documents and provided context relating to the history of Cinema 16, a New York film society screening experimental, and documentary cinema.Notes: For second edition on Cinema 16 see Wide Angle Vol. 19 Iss.2
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Cinema 16 : Documents Toward a History of the Film Society Part 11 in Wide Angle (April 1997) vol.19 iss.2 p.[whole issue]
Author: MacDonald, Scott PhysDes: ArticleSummary: Second edition of Cienma 16 special. Documents and provided context relating to the history of Cinema 16, a New York film society screening experimental, and documentary cinema.Notes: For Part 1 see Wide Angle Vol. 19 Iss. 1
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A critical cinema : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley: University of California Press, c1988-Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1988-PhysDes: v. <1-3 > : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; IIMURA, TAKAHIKO ; B, BETH & SCOTT ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; CONNER, BRUCE ; NELSON, ROBERT ; MANGOLTE, BABETTE ; KUCHAR, GEORGE ; DE LANDA, MANUEL ; FISHER, MORGAN ; GOTTHEIM, LARRY ; HUOT, ROBERT ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; CHOMONT, TOM ; MURPHY, J. J. ; DICK, VIVIENNE ; BARRIE, DIANA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes filmographiesISBN: 0520079183 (v. 2 : pbk.); 0520058011 (v. 1 : pbk.); 0520079175 (v. 2 : cloth); 0520087054 (v. 3 : cloth); 0520209435 (v. 3 : pbk.); 0520058003 (v. 1 : cloth)LON: 5271962
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A critical cinema 2 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley London: University of California Press, 1992.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: Berkeley LondonPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1992PhysDes: x, 462 p. : ill., ports ; 24cmSubject: BREER, ROBERT ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; MEKAS, JONAS ; BAILLIE, BRUCE ; ONO, YOKO ; BENNING, JAMES ; BORDEN, LIZZIE ; MCELWEE, ROSS ; FRIEDRICH, SU ; MULVEY, LAURA ; RAINER, YVONNE ; TRINH, T. MINH-HA ; REGGIO, GODFREY ; WATKINS, PETER ; MCCALL, ANTHONY ; NOREN, ANDREW ; ROBERTSON, ANNE ; SEVERSON, ANNE Notes: Bibliography: p437-447. -List of films: p423-435. -Includes indexISBN: 0520079175 (cased) : No price; 0520079183 (pbk) : No price; 0520058011 (pbk); 0520058003 (cased)LON: 9965582
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A critical cinema 3 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998:
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott 1942 Place: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998PhysDes: 481 p. ; 23cmISBN: 0520209435LON: abn98083239; 13743185
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A critical cinema 4 : Interviews with independent filmmakers / MacDonld, Scott Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2005.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Edition: 2005Place: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 410 p. ; 23 cmSeries: A critical cinemaSubject: STAN BRAKHAGE ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS Summary: A Critical Cinema 4 is the fourth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald once again engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the network of interconnections within the community of filmmakers.
A Critical Cinema 4 includes the most extensive interview with the late Stan Brakhage yet published; a conversation with P. Adams Sitney about his arrival on the New York independent film scene; a detailed discussion with Peter Kubelka about the experience of making Our African Journey; a conversation with Jill Godmilow and Harun Farocki on modern political documentary; Jim McBride's first extended published conversation in thirty years; a discussion with Abigail Child about her evolution from television documentarian to master editor; and the first extended interview with Chuck Workman. This volume also contains discussions with Chantal Akerman about her place trilogy; Lawrence Brose on his examination of Oscar Wilde's career; Hungarian Peter Forgács about his transformation of European home movies into video operas; Iranian-born Shirin Neshat on working between two cultures; and Ellen Spiro about exploring America with her video camera and her dog. Each interview is supplemented by an introductory overview of the filmmaker's contributions. A detailed filmography and a selected bibliography complete the volume. -- publisher's blurbISBN: 9780520242715Contents: Introduction
P. Adams Sitney
Stan Brakhage
Jill Godmilow (and Harun Farocki)
Peter Kubelka
Jim McBride
Abigail Child
Chuck Workman
Chantl Akerman
Lawrence Brose
Peter Forgacs
Shirin Neshat
Ellen Spiro
Filmography
Bibliography
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A critical cinema 5 : interviews with independent filmmakers / Scott MacDonald Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2006.
Call No: 802.25 MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Source: USPlace: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; ANGER, KENNETH ; CONRAD, TONY ; DORSKY, NATHANIEL ; HILER, JEROME ; AHWESH, PEGGY ; BERLINER, ALAN ; MOSS, ROBB ; SOLOMAN, PHIL ; BENNING, JAMES ; LEIGHTON PIERCE ; MULLER, MATTHIAS ; LOCKHART, SHARON ; REEVES, JENNIFER TODD ; KANO, SHIHO ; GEHR, ERNIE Summary: "MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media. "ISBN: 0520245954Contents: Kenneth Anger -- Tony Conrad -- Nathaniel Dorsky (and Jerome Hiler) -- Peggy Ahwesh -- Alan Berliner -- Robb Moss -- Phil Solomon -- James Benning -- J. Leighton Pierce -- Matthias Mu¨ller -- Sharon Lockhart -- Jennifer Todd Reeves -- Shiho Kano -- Ernie Gehr
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The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / Scott MacDonald Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.
Call No: 738(71) MACAuthor: MacDonald, Scott Place: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: xxvi, 461 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 24cmSubject: INDEPENDENT FILMS ; NATURE IN FILMS ; PLACE IN FILMS ; PLACE IN FILMS. USA ; CITIES IN FILMS ; NEW YORK IN FILMS ; GOTTHEIM, LARRY ; COLE, THOMAS ; MURPHY, J. J. ; ANGER, KENNETH ; MENKEN, MARIE ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; KELLER, MARJORIE ; ROBERTSON, ANNE CHARLOTTE ; LOWDER, ROSE ; MANGOLTE, BABETTE ; BENNING, JAMES ; STONE, OLIVER ; SPIRO, ELLEN ; DEBONT, JAN ; KUCHAR, GEORGE ; BURCKHARDT, RUDY ; WEEGEE ; THOMPSON, FRANCIS ; MENKEN, MARIE ; HARRIS, HILARY ; LEE, SPIKE ; STAUFFACHER, FRANK ; BAILLIE, BRUCE ; RUDNICK, MICHAEL ; GEHR, ERNIE ; O'NEILL, PAT ; MARTIN, EUGENE ; MEKAS, JONAS ; GREAVES, WILLIAM ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; HUOT, ROBERT ; DORSKY, NATHANIEL ; HUTTON, PETER ; DASH, JULIE ; FRANKLIN, CARL ; CONNER, BRUCE ; HERZOG, WERNER ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; STRAND, CHICK ; NOREN, ANDREW ; PIERCE, LEIGHTON ; GATTEN, DAVID Summary: "Explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualises his discussion with wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, painting and photography. Examining the representation of nature and landscape in particular, and location in general, MacDonald offers new readings of films under consideration as well as an expanded sense of modern film history."Notes: Includes distribution sources for films and videos (in US), notes and indexISBN: 0520227387
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A context for Vivienne Dick in October (Spring 1982) vol.20 p.82-106
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Movies Before Cinema : Part I in Wide Angle (April 1996) vol.18 iss.2 p.[whole issue]
Author: MacDonald, Scott PhysDes: ArticleSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA Summary: Part I of a two-part issue on visual images before the creation of films. Articles focus on cave paintings featuring in early cinema, and the medium of 'panoramic viewing'.Notes: For part two see Wide Angle Vol. 18 Iss.3
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Movies Before Cinema : Part II in Wide Angle (July 1996) vol.18 iss.3 p.[whole issue]
Author: MacDonald, Scott PhysDes: ArticleSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's Summary: Part II of Wide Angle's look at pre-cinema images. Articles look at ocular discipline, women and Tableaux Vivants, and modernity. Includes book reviews on 'Etienne-Gaspard Robertson: La Vie d'un Fantasmagore', 'Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class', and 'Pre-Cinema History: An Essay Encyclopedia and Annotated Bibliography of the Moving Image before 1896'.Notes: For Part 1 see Wide Angle Vol. 18 Iss. 2
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Screen writings : scripts and texts by independent filmmakers / [edited by] Scott MacDonald Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Call No: 792 SCRAuthor: MacDonald, Scott, 1942 Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: ix, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: SCRIPTS ; INDEPENDENT FILMS ; MULVEY, LAURA ; WOLLEN, PETER ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; TRINH, T. MINH-HA ; FRIEDRICH, SU ; ONO, YOKO ; GREAVES, WILLIAM ; BENNING, JAMES ; ROSE, PETER ; FISHER, MORGAN ; FLEMING, ANN MARIE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; REASSEMBLAGE (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1983) ; NAKED SPACES (US, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985) ; PRIVILEGE (US, Yvonne Rainer, 1990) ; NEW SHOES : AN INTERVIEW IN EXACTLY 5 MINUTES (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1990) ; YOU TAKE CARE NOW (CN?, Ann Marie Fleming, 1989) ; SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM : TAKE ONE (US, William Greaves, 1991 [prod.1967]) ; ZORNS LEMMA (US, Hollis Frampton, 1970) ; POETIC JUSTICE (US, Hollis Frampton, 1972) ; GLORIA! (US, Hollis Frampton, 1979) ; RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (UK, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, 1977) ; GRAND OPERA (US, James Benning, 1979) ; HIM AND ME (GW, James Benning, 1982) ; SO IS THIS (CN, Michael Snow, 1982) ; PLEASURES OF THE TEXT (US, Peter Rose, 1985) ; SECONDARY CURRENTS (US, Peter Rose, 1983) ; STANDARD GAUGE (US, Morgan Fisher, 1985?) ; GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (US, Su Friedrich, 1983) ; SINK OR SWIM (US, Su Friedrich, 1981) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339)ISBN: 0520080246 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520080254 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 9335490
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