American ethnographic film and personal documentary : the Cambridge turn

American ethnographic film and personal documentary : 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Subjects:
Documentary films > United States > History and criticism.
Ethnographic films > United States > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Dokumentarfilm
Ethnologischer Film
Filmregisseur
United States
USA
Massachusetts
Motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Motion pictures.
Films.
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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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