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Zusatztext "MacDonald’s connection between the ethnographic and the personal documentary is a fitting and eloquent book topic that draws attention to the blurring of lines between filmic categories and styles." Informationen zum Autor Scott MacDonald teaches film history at Hamilton College and Harvard University and in 2011 was named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books for UC Press! most recently Adventures in Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009). Klappentext "How does Scott MacDonald do it? Every couple of years he produces a work so significant that it would have taken any other scholar at least a decade to produce. This! his newest opus! extends the spatial approach to cinema he pioneered in The Garden in the Machine ! but does so by focusing on documentary rather the avant-garde. His exploration of the interlaced traditions of ethnographic and personal documentary filmmaking in the Boston area in the light of American Pragmatism's commitment to the examination of lived experience is a remarkable addition to his already remarkable oeuvre." - David E. James! author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles "[ American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary ] is a superbly original and informative work that takes as its project the creation of a cognitive map of a significant and geographically specific area within the larger field of independent documentary filmmaking. It is fascinating to follow the book's careful articulation of the network of teachers and students! and the institutions where they and their films flourished. This book establishes a new path for documentary studies within a cultural landscape that widens to spatial media studies and beyond."- Janet Walker! author of Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust Zusammenfassung Tells the history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how an approach to documentary developed over the past half century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Tentative Overview of Boston-Area Documentary Filmmaking • Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary • Pragmatism: Learning from Experience • The Mission of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn • Subjects for Further Research • Acknowledgments 1. Lorna and John Marshall Beginnings: Lorna Marshall and First Film • John Marshall: The Hunters • Idylls of the !Kung • Pedagogy • Expulsion from Eden: Bitter Melons and N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman • The Pittsburgh Police Films and Brakhage’s Eyes • Putting Down the Camera and Picking Up the Shovel • The Road Taken: A Kalahari Family • A Process in Time 2. Robert Gardner East Coast/West Coast: Early Experiments • Gardner and the Marshalls • Dead Birds • The Experience of Filmmaking as Thought Process • Robert Fulton: Reality’s Invisible—“Serious Playing Around” • Screening Room: Midnight Movies • City Symphony: Forest of Bliss • The Return of the Repressed: Ika Hands • Still Journeying On: Unfinished Examinations of a Life • Studio7Arts: Sharon Lockhart’s Double Tide and Robert Fenz’s Correspondence 3. Timothy Asch Dodoth Morning and the Ethnographic Deadpan • Asch and the Yanomamo • The Ax Fight 4. Ed Pincus and the Emergence of Personal Documentary The Miriam Weinstein Quartet and Richard P. Rogers’s Elephants: Fragments of an Argument • Ed Pincus’s Diaries (1971–1976) • Alfred Guzzetti: Family Portrait Sittings • Guzzetti: It’s a Small World • Guzzetti: Time Exposure ...
