عنوان

The garden in the machine :

شابک

0520227379

شابک

0520227387

شابک

9780520227378

شابک

9780520227385

کد کشور

bnb

شماره

b412970

عنوان اصلي

The garden in the machine :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a field guide to independent films about place /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Scott MacDonald

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Berkeley :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of California Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2001

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxvi, 461 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (some color) ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index

متن يادداشت

Counter The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the films under consideration and an expanded sense of modern film history. Among the many antecedents to the films and videos discussed here are Thomas Cole's landscape painting, Thoreau's Walden, Olmsted and Vaux's Central Park, and Eadweard Muybridge's panoramic photographs of San Francisco. MacDonald analyzes the work of many accomplished avant-garde filmmakers: Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, James Benning, Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Larry Gottheim, Robert Huot, Peter Hutton, Marjorie Keller, Rose Lowder, Marie Menken, J.J. Murphy, Andrew Noren, Pat O'Neill, Leighton Pierce, Carolee Schneemann, and Chick Strand. He also examines a variety of recent commercial feature films, as well as independent experiments in documentary and such contributions to independent video history as George Kuchar's Weather Diaries and Ellen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home. MacDonald reveals the spiritual underpinnings of these works and shows how issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class are conveyed as filmmakers attempt to discover forms of Edenic serenity within the Machine of modern society. Both personal and scholarly, The Garden in the Machine will be an invaluable resource for those interested in investigating and experiencing a broader spectrum of cinema in their teaching, in their research, and in their lives

موضوع مستند نشده

Experimental films-- History and criticism

موضوع مستند نشده

Motion pictures-- Setting and scenery

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

MacDonald, Scott,1942-

تاريخ عمليات

20160122221950.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y