Adventures of Perception : Cinema as Exploration / Scott MacDonald; ed. by Scott MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Scott, Author.

Contributor:

MacDonald, Scott, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.) : 82 b/w photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States. In this collection of thematically related personal essays and conversations with filmmakers, he takes us on a fascinating journey into many under-explored territories of cinema. MacDonald illuminates topics including race and avant-garde film, the political implications of the nature film, the inventive single shot films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, why men use pornography and what they are looking at when they do, poetry and the poetic in avant-garde film, the widespread failure of film studies academicians to honor those who keep film exhibition alive, and other topics.Several of the interviews--those with Korean filmmaker Gina Kim, French nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos), Canadian media artist Clive Holden, formalist/conceptualist David Gatten, and New York's Film Forum director Karen Cooper--are the first substantial conversations with these filmmakers available in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Desegregating Film History

Interview with Gina Kim

Poetry and Film

Interview with Clive Holden

Up Close and Political

Interview with Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou

The Attractions of Nature in Early Cinema

Interview with Peter Hutton

Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket

Interview with James Benning

The Mohawk Valley Journey to The Journey

Interview with David Gatten

Confessions of a Feminist Porn Watcher (Then and Now)

Interview with George Kuchar (on the Weather Diaries)

Film History and Film History

Interview with Karen Cooper

Sources for Films

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520944961

OCLC:

1408682584