Format:
Online-Ressource (497 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520227378
Content:
The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the fi
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 The Garden in the Machine; Larry Gottheim's Fog Line; J. J. Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign; 2 Voyages of Life; Thomas 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-envisioning the American West
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Babette Mangolte's The Sky on LocationJames Benning's North on Evers; Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers; Ellen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home; 5 From the Sublime to the Vernacular; Jan DeBont's Twister; 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
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Bruce Baillie's Castro StreetMichael Rudnick's Panorama; 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; Jonas Mekas's Walden; William 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; 9 Expulsion from the Garden; Thomas Cole's The Garden of Eden and Expulsion from the Garden
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J. J. Murphy's Print Generation and Horicon10 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; Appendix: Distribution Sources for Films and Videos; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520926455
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520227385
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Garden in the Machine A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place
Language:
English
Keywords:
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