Canyon Cinema : the life and times of an independent film distributor / Scott MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canyon Cinema.

Independent films--United States.

Independent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Bringing alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history, Scott MacDonald tells the colorful story of how a small, backyard organization in the San Francisco Bay Area emerged in the 1960's and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema. Drawing from extensive conversations with men and women crucial to Canyon Cinema, from its newsletter Canyon Cinema news, and from other key sources, MacDonald offers a lively chronicle of the life and times of this influential, idiosyncratic film exhibition and distribution collective. His book features many primary documents that are as engaging and relevant now as they were when originally published, including essays, poetry, experimental writing, and drawings.

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612360220

9781282360228

1282360221

9780520940611

052094061X

OCLC:

773565083