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The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place
Scott Macdonald
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Description for The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place
Paperback. This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Num Pages: 487 pages, 24 color illustrations, 95 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 917.
The Garden in the Machine 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 contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the films under consideration and an expanded sense of modern film history. Among ... Read more
The Garden in the Machine 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 contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the films under consideration and an expanded sense of modern film history. Among ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
487
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520227385
SKU
V9780520227385
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About Scott Macdonald
Scott MacDonald teaches at Bard College. He is currently at work on volume 4 of A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (volumes 1, 2, and 3 available from California). He is the author of Avant-Garde Film/Motion Studies (1993) and editor of Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers (California, 1995).
Reviews for The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place
"This book is MacDonald's magnum opus: it represents a deep immersion in and advocacy for independent, experimental cinema." -Patricia R. Zimmerman, author of States of Emergency:Documentaries,Wars, Democracies; "The Garden in the Machine is clearly MacDonald's major work. It is very original and wide reaching especially in its analysis of the relationship of American avant-garde films to the poetry and painting ... Read more