LEADER 00000cam a2200685 a 4500 001 46935868 003 OCoLC 005 20170411034524.0 008 010503s2002 caua b 001 0 eng 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 020123 Addid: PCT Moddate: 090106 Modid: MER 010 2001027877 015 GBA239183|2bnb 019 50418551|a222575775 020 0520227379|q(cloth ;|qalk. paper) 020 9780520227378|q(cloth ;|qalk. paper) 020 0520227387|q(pbk. ;|qalk. paper) 020 9780520227385|q(pbk. ;|qalk. paper) 035 (PFA-BOOKS)7717 035 GLADN84539129 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dPUL|dUKM|dBAKER|dBTCTA|dYDXCP|dOCLCG|dHEBIS |dOCLCQ|dCS1|dILU|dBDX|dOCLCQ|dA7U|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ |dOCLCO|dOCLCQ 042 pcc 050 00 PN1995.9.E96|bM344 2001 082 00 791.43/611|221 100 1 MacDonald, Scott,|d1942- 245 14 The garden in the machine :|ba field guide to independent films about place /|cScott MacDonald. 260 Berkeley :|bUniversity of California Press,|c©2001. 300 xxvi, 461 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index. 505 00 |g1.|tThe Garden in the Machine.|tLarry Gottheim's Fog Line.|tThomas Cole's The Oxbow.|tJ.J. Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign.|tpanoramas --|g2.|tVoyages of Life. |tThormas Cole's The Voyage of Life.|tLarry Gottheim's Horizons --|g3.|tAvant-Gardens.|tKenneth Anger's Eaux d'artifice.|tMarie Menken's Glimpse of the Garden. |tCarolee Schneemann's Fuses.|tStan Brakhage's The Garden of Earthly Delights.|tMarjorie Keller's The Answering Furrow.|tAnne Charlotte Robertson's Melon Patches, Or Reasons to Go on Living.|tRose Lowder's ecological cinema --|g4.|tRe-envlsloning the American West.|tBabette Mangolte's The Sky on Location.|tJames Benning's North on Evers.|tOliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.|tEllen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home --|g5.|tFrom the Subllme to the Vernacular. 520 Counter 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 films under consideration and an expanded sense of modern film history. Among the many antecedents to the films and videos discussed here are Thomas Cole's landscape painting, Thoreau's Walden, Olmsted and Vaux's Central Park, and Eadweard Muybridge's panoramic photographs of San Francisco. MacDonald analyzes the work of many accomplished avant-garde filmmakers: Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, James Benning, Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Larry Gottheim, Robert Huot, Peter Hutton, Marjorie Keller, Rose Lowder, Marie Menken, J.J. Murphy, Andrew Noren, Pat O'Neill, Leighton Pierce, Carolee Schneemann, and Chick Strand. He also examines a variety of recent commercial feature films, as well as independent experiments in documentary and such contributions to independent video history as George Kuchar's Weather Diaries and Ellen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home. MacDonald reveals the spiritual underpinnings of these works and shows how issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class are conveyed as filmmakers attempt to discover forms of Edenic serenity within the Machine of modern society. Both personal and scholarly, The Garden in the Machine will be an invaluable resource for those interested in investigating and experiencing a broader spectrum of cinema in their teaching, in their research, and in their lives. 590 BANC; PN1995.9.E96.M344 2001: Signed by Bruce Conner 650 0 Experimental films|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Motion pictures|xSetting and scenery. 650 7 Experimental films.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00918452 650 7 Motion pictures|xSetting and scenery.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027381 650 07 Experimentalfilm.|2swd 650 07 Unabhängiger Film.|2swd 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635 752 United States|bCalifornia|dBerkeley 796 1 Conner, Bruce,|d1933-2008,|eautographer.|5CU-BANC 856 41 |3ACLS Humanities E-Book|uhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027/ heb.08182 856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ ucal041/2001027877.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp:// catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2001027877.html 856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/ description/ucal042/2001027877.html 935 GLADN84539129 935 .b10312006 956 20170411|btbtb01 957 OCLC xref loaded 20180204 991 bb10312006 994 C0|bCUY