American ethnographic film and personal documentary the Cambridge turn /

American ethnographic film and personal documentary [electronic resource] : the Cambridge turn / Scott MacDonald.

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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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Main Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
Other title:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Documentary films > United States > History and criticism.
Ethnographic films > United States > History and criticism.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
United States.
Motion pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A tentative overview of Boston-area documentary filmmaking
  • 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 documentary
  • Lucien Castaing-Taylor and sensory ethnography.

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