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American ethnographic film and personal documentary : the Cambridge turn
- Title
- American ethnographic film and personal documentary : the Cambridge turn / Scott MacDonald.
- Author
- MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 415 pages : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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. "--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-396) and index.
- Contents
- Lorna and John Marshall -- Robert Gardner -- Timothy Asch -- Ed Pincus and the emergence of personal documentary -- Alfred Guzzetti and personal cinema -- Ross McElwee -- Robb Moss -- Panorama: other approaches to personal drama -- Lucien Castaing-Taylor and sensory ethnography.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-5991
- ISBN
- 9780520275614 (hardback)
- 0520275616 (hardback)
- 9780520275621 (paper)
- 0520275624 (paper)
- 9780520954939 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012045799
- 40022471955
- OCLC
- 818734540
- Author
- MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
- Title
- American ethnographic film and personal documentary : the Cambridge turn / Scott MacDonald.
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-396) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022471955
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-5991