Canyon Cinema : the life and times of an independent film distributor / / Scott MacDonald |
Autore | MacDonald Scott <1942-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (478 p.) |
Disciplina | 384/.80973 |
Soggetto topico | Independent films - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american film culture
20th century american film history american cultural history army surplus screen avant garde films bruce baillie canyon california canyon cinema canyon cinemanews cinema exhibition outlet experimental films experimental writings film distribution collective filmmakers cooperative films independent film cinema independent films independent movie pictures movies san francisco bay area san francisco cinematheque |
ISBN |
1-282-36022-1
9786612360220 0-520-94061-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Formation -- Announcement of Publication of Canyon Cinema News, 1962 -- An Essay on Censorship / Landau, Saul -- Report from on the Road, Filming . . . [1964] / Baillie, Bruce -- Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] / Markopoulos, Gregory -- Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 / Manupelli, George -- On His Blindness [1965] / Manupelli, George -- 2 : Incorporation -- Conversation with Edith Kramer, July 2001 -- Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 / Baillie, Bruce -- Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 / Conner, Bruce -- Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 / Nelson, Robert -- Letter [1967] / Baillie, Bruce -- Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967] / Pike, Robert -- Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] / Baillie, Bruce -- Review of Sheldon Renan's An Introduction to the American Underground Film [1967] / Menefee, Emory -- Letter [1967] / Hindle, Will -- The Brussels Festival [1968] / Nelson, Robert -- The Swedish Proposal for New American Cinema, and Some Miscellaneous Notes [1968] / Nelson, Robert -- Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 / Hindle, Will -- Notes from the Creative Film Society: Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] / Pike, Robert -- News from the Australian Undependents -- Letter to John Schofill [1968] / Spinello, Barry -- Notes from the Creative Film Society [1968] / Pike, Robert -- Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee's response / Conner, Bruce -- The Story of a Closet Cine-Drama . . . or . . . From Isolation to Immortality [1968] / Pike, Robert -- Some Thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival Two Weeks after Judging It [1968] / Nelson, Robert -- Letter, September 10 [1968] / Hindle, Will -- Letter, "August, Beginning of September" [1968] / Baillie, Bruce -- Letter [1969] / Hindle, Will -- Fan Letter to Bruce Conner [1969] / Lennon, John -- Letter from Oakland, California [1969] / Spinello, Barry -- Exchanges (Letters) [1969] / Conner, Bruce -- Letter [1969] / Mekas, Jonas -- Letter [1970] / Conner, Bruce -- Letter from Alabama, January 1970 / Emshwiller, Ed -- I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] / Brakhage, Stan -- Letter [1970] / Hindle, Will -- Canyon Cinema Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] / Jost, Jon -- Letter [1970] / Baillie, Bruce -- Canyon Cinema Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] -- Right Back to the Billabong [1970] / Cantrill, Arthur -- Poem [1970] / Bartlett, Scott -- Letter [1970] / Nelson, Robert -- Letter [1972] / Conner, Bruce -- Letter [1972] / Strand, Chick -- Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperative Realities (Some Concrete Policy Suggestions) [1972] / Jost, John -- Eight Drawings [1972] / Conner, Bruce -- Whatever Became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] / Lloyd, Don -- Letter from Bangkok [1972] / Hutton, Peter -- Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] / DeRoux, Ken -- 3 : Revitalization -- Conversation with Diane Kitchen, March 2002 -- Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3, 1974 -- Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 / Hindle, Will -- Remarks Following a Screening of The Text of Light at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 / Brakhage, Stan -- Letter, March 1975 / Baillie, Bruce -- Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] / Pearson, Lyle -- How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] / Broughton, James -- Australian Coop News [1975] / Thoms, Albie -- Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] / Pearson, Lyle -- Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] / Kitchen, Diane / Nelson, Gunvor -- Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1976 / Hindle, Will -- Letter and Excerpts from a Conversation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, 1977] / Varela, Willie -- What Is a Poetry Film? [1977] / Berlandt, Herman -- A Bit of Scuttlebutt . . . [1977] -- Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] / Broughton, James -- Discussion with George Landow [1977] / Ellman, Steve -- Letter, April 22, 1977 -- Windowmobile [1977] / Broughton, James -- 4 : Intellectualization -- Conversation with Bruce Conner, July 2001 -- An Art Liberation Front Dis'course on Avant-Garde Film [1977] / Gibbons, Joe -- Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] / Hills, Henry -- Hollis Frampton in San Francisco [April 21/29, 1977] -- Body-Centered Film [1977] / Hammer, Barbara -- Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977] / Kuchar, George -- Matinee [1978] / Child, Abigail -- The Dietrich Dossier (cartoon) [1978] / Kuchar, George -- ALF Communique [1978] / Gibbons, Joe -- Letter to Henry Hills, January 13, 1978 / Brakhage, Stan -- Letter [1978] / White, David -- George Kuchar in Europe (an interview) [1978] / Hills, Henry -- Aunt Kastune [1978] / Mekas, Jonas -- Tony Conrad in San Francisco, February 28, 1978 -- Child Labor [1978] / Hills, Henry -- Letter, February 18, 1978 -- Letter, September 22, 1968 / Conner, Bruce -- Robert Nelson Interview [1978] / Hills, Henry -- George Landow at the Cinematheque, May 18, 1978 -- Hollis Frampton in San Francisco, part 2 [ST. HOLLIS] -- Yvonne Rainer at the Cinematheque, April 6, 1978 -- Violence [1978] / Child, Abigail -- Some Unseen Lights [1978] / Broughton, James -- Sketchbook (November-December 1977) / Spiegelman, Art -- To Whom It . . . [1979] / Barrie, Diana -- Survival in the Independent-Non-Commercial-Avant-Garde- Experimental-Personal-Expressionistic Film Market of 1979 / Jordan, Larry -- How to Read II [1979] / Seaton, Peter -- 1st Milarepa Gatha [1979] / Low, Jackson Mac -- Film Syntax [1979] / Sonbert, Warren -- The Films of Aline Mayer [1979] / Child, Abigail -- Letter, December 24, 1979, and New York Cut the Crap [1980 / Doberman, Gary -- Film Syntax (Continued) [1980] / Sonbert, Warren -- "What's a Picnic without Potato Salad!" [1980] / / Lee, Caroline Savage -- Letter, May 16, 1980 / Bartlett, Freude -- Letter, Late June [1980] / Baillie, Bruce -- Chick Strand at the Cinematheque, March 6, 1980 -- Conversation with Chick Strand [1980] / Nelson, Gunvor -- Letter, c. 1980 / Meter, Ben Van -- Letter, September 10, 1980 / Hills, Henry -- Letter, September 18, 1980 / Strand, Chick -- 5 : Maintenance -- Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006 -- Letters to Canyon Cinema Sent during the Film/Video Debate of 1994 (from Tom DeWitt, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, and Stan Brakhage) -- Letter from Camano Island, October 10, 1994 / Baillie, Bruce -- Appendix 1. Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present -- Appendix 2. Canyon Cinema's Gross Rentals and Sales, from 1966 until 2006-2007 -- Acknowledgments of Permissions -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780640703321 |
MacDonald Scott <1942-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The garden in the machine [[electronic resource] ] : a field guide to independent films about place / / Scott MacDonald |
Autore | MacDonald Scott <1942-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/611 |
Soggetto topico |
Experimental films - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Setting and scenery |
Soggetto non controllato |
1900s
19th century 20th century academic american history avant garde film bruce baillie carolee schneemann central park easy to understand ernie gehr film history film studies filmmakers geography hollis frampton james benning kenneth anger landscape painting landscape larry gottheim literature location mainstream film modern film nathaniel dorsky natural world nature painting peter hutton photographer photography place regional san francisco scholarly stan brakhage walden |
ISBN |
1-280-49204-X
9786613587275 0-520-92645-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Garden in the Machine -- 2. Voyages of Life -- 3. Avant-Gardens -- 4. Re-envisioning the American West -- 5. From the Sublime to the Vernacular -- 6. The City as Motion Picture -- 7. The Country in the City -- 8. Rural (and Urban) Hours -- 9. Expulsion from the Garden -- 10. Satan's National Park -- 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers -- Appendix. Distribution Sources for Films and Videos -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790287803321 |
MacDonald Scott <1942-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / / Scott MacDonald |
Autore | MacDonald Scott <1942-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (505 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/611 |
Soggetto topico |
Experimental films - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Setting and scenery |
Soggetto non controllato |
1900s
19th century 20th century academic american history avant garde film bruce baillie carolee schneemann central park easy to understand ernie gehr film history film studies filmmakers geography hollis frampton james benning kenneth anger landscape painting landscape larry gottheim literature location mainstream film modern film nathaniel dorsky natural world nature painting peter hutton photographer photography place regional san francisco scholarly stan brakhage walden |
ISBN |
1-280-49204-X
9786613587275 0-520-92645-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Garden in the Machine -- 2. Voyages of Life -- 3. Avant-Gardens -- 4. Re-envisioning the American West -- 5. From the Sublime to the Vernacular -- 6. The City as Motion Picture -- 7. The Country in the City -- 8. Rural (and Urban) Hours -- 9. Expulsion from the Garden -- 10. Satan's National Park -- 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers -- Appendix. Distribution Sources for Films and Videos -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810636903321 |
MacDonald Scott <1942-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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