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American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn
Scott Macdonald
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Description for American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn
Paperback. Tells the history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how an approach to documentary developed over the past half century. Num Pages: 424 pages, 50 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
584g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520275621
SKU
V9780520275621
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About Scott Macdonald
Scott MacDonald teaches film history at Hamilton College and Harvard University and in 2011 was named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books for UC Press, most recently Adventures in Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009).
Reviews for American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn
"Inestimable addition to the film-studies canon." 10 Best Film-Studies Books of 2013.
Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine "Intimacy is rarely a word connected to published academic work, and yet I can't think of a better word to distinguish MacDonald's thoroughly researched and rigorously annotated tome from all previous books I've reviewed on these pages."
Cynthia Close Documentary "This book ... Read more
Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine "Intimacy is rarely a word connected to published academic work, and yet I can't think of a better word to distinguish MacDonald's thoroughly researched and rigorously annotated tome from all previous books I've reviewed on these pages."
Cynthia Close Documentary "This book ... Read more