Entrée principale:

MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Titre et auteur:

The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place / Scott MacDonald.

Publication:

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxvi, 461 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Garden in the Machine. Larry Gottheim's Fog Line. Thomas Cole's The Oxbow. J.J. Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign. panoramas -- 2. Voyages of Life. Thormas Cole's The Voyage of Life. Larry Gottheim's Horizons -- 3. Avant-Gardens. Kenneth Anger's Eaux d'artifice. Marie Menken's Glimpse of the Garden. Carolee Schneemann's Fuses. Stan Brakhage's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Marjorie Keller's The Answering Furrow. Anne Charlotte Robertson's Melon Patches, Or Reasons to Go on Living. Rose Lowder's ecological cinema -- 4. Re-envlsloning the American West. Babette Mangolte's The Sky on Location. James Benning's North on Evers. Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Ellen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home -- 5. From the Subllme to the Vernacular. Jan DeBont's Twister and George Kuchar's Weather Diaries -- 6. The City as Motion Picture. The New York City Symphony: Rudy Burckhardt's New York films. Weegee's Weegee's New York. Francis Thompson's N.Y., N.Y. Marie Menken's Go! Go! Go! Hilary Harris's Organism. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. Panorama, the San Francisco City Film: Frank Stauffacher's Sausalito and Notes on the Port of St. Francis. Bruce Baillie's Castro Street. Michael Rudnick's Panorma. Ernie Gehr's Eureka and Side/Walk/Shuttle. Coda -- Deconstruction/Reconstruction: Pat O'Neill's Water and Power and Eugene Martin's Invisible Cities -- 7. The Country in the City. Central Park. Jonas Mekas's Walden. Welliam Greaves's Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One -- 8. Rural (and Urban) Hours. Hollis Frampton's Zorns Lemma. Robert Huot's One Year (1970) and Rolls: 1971. Nathaniel Dorsky's Hours for Jerome. Peter Hutton's Landscape (for Manon) and New York Portrait, Part I -- 9. Expulsion from the Garden. Thomas Cole's The Garden of Eden and Expulsion from the Garden. Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust. Carl Franklin's One False Move. J.J. Murphy's Print Generation and Horicon -- 10. Satan's National Park. Bruce Conner's Crossroads. Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness. Claude Lanzmann's Shoah. James Benning's Deseret and Four Corners -- 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers. Chick Strand's Kristallnacht. Stan Brakhage's Commingled Containers. Andrew Noren's Imaginary Light. Leighton Pierce's 50 Feet of String. David Gatten's What the Water Said, nos. 1-3. App. Distribution Sources for Films and Videos.
English.

Résumé:

This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required:
Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required:
Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required:

ISBN:

0520227379
9780520227378
0520227387 (pbk.)
9780520227385 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Experimental films History and criticism.
Motion pictures Setting and scenery.
Cinéma Décors.
Experimental films
Experimentalfilm
Schauplatz
Filmkunst.
Experimentele filmkunst.
Ruimte (algemeen)
USA

Classification/genre:

Field guides.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 222361
Cote: PN1995.9.E96 M3 2001
Statut: Disponible