20th century american film culture
20th century american film history
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Author_Scott MacDonald
avant garde films
bruce baillie
canyon california
canyon cinema
canyon cinemanews
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cinema
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experimental films
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san francisco bay area
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520250871
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bringing alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history, Scott MacDonald tells the colorful story of how a small, backyard organization in the San Francisco Bay Area emerged in the 1960s and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema. Drawing from extensive conversations with men and women crucial to Canyon Cinema, from its newsletter Canyon Cinemanews, and from other key sources, MacDonald offers a lively chronicle of the life and times of this influential, idiosyncratic film exhibition and distribution collective. His book features many primary documents that are as engaging and relevant now as they were when originally published, including essays, poetry, experimental writing, and drawings.
Scott MacDonald is author of the five volumes of the Critical Cinema series (UC Press), of The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (UC Press), and of several other books on avant-garde film and on institutions that have kept avant-garde film alive. He is currently Visiting Professor of Film History at Hamilton College and at Harvard University.
