Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor
by Scott MacDonald
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Scott MacDonald is author/editor of fifteen books, including the five-volume A Critical Cinema series and most recently, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn. He teaches film history at Hamilton College.
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- Nonfiction, History, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 384.80973 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Communications Motion pictures Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America
- LCC
- PN1999 .C335 .M33 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- 978,285
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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