| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts
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| Contents |
Introduction : A tentative overview of Boston-area documentary filmmaking -- Lorna and John Marshall -- Robert Gardner -- Timothy Asch -- Ed Pincus and the emergence of personal documentary -- Alfred Guzzetti and personal cinema -- Ross McElwee -- Robb Moss -- Panorama : Other approaches to personal documentary -- Lucien Castaing-Taylor and sensory ethnography |
| Summary |
This book is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center, and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. The author uses pragmatism's focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, the author shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century. -- Provided by publisher |
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accomplished filmmakers |
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boston |
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cambridge |
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carpenter center |
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cosmopolitan approach |
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documentary movies |
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ed pincus |
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ethnography |
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film and television |
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film study center |
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groundbreaking films |
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history of film |
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history |
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influential filmmakers |
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john marshall |
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michel negroponte |
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miriam weinstein |
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mit film section |
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nina davenport |
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performing arts |
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personal documentary |
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professional relationships |
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robb moss |
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robert gardner |
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timothy asch |
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visual and environmental studies department at harvard |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Ethnographic films -- United States -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Documentary films
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Ethnographic films
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Dokumentarfilm
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Ethnologischer Film
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Filmregisseur
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United States
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USA
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Massachusetts
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| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012045799 |
| ISBN |
9780520954939 |
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0520954939 |
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