American ethnographic film and personal documentary [electronic resource] : the Cambridge turn / Scott MacDonald.
This book 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 Ca...
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| Other title: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | This book 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. The author 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, the author shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520954939 0520954939 |