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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154326303321

Autore

MacDonald

Titolo

Avant-doc : intersections of documentary and avant-garde cinema : an oral panorama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-938874-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

070.1/8

Soggetti

Documentary films - History and criticism

Experimental films - History and criticism

Motion picture producers and directors

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'Avant-Doc' is a collection of in-depth interviews with filmmakers who work in the territory between documentary and what is usually called avant-garde film, either within particular films or over the life of filmmaking careers. The volume is organised in a rough chronology beginning with a scholar (Annette Michelson) whose writing and editing have bridged the gap between documentary and avant-garde film, and several filmmakers (Robert Gardner, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Nina Davenport) whose work was formative in the development of particular kinds of documentary and 'avant-doc'.