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Canyon Cinema : The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor

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 1960s and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema. Drawing from extensive conv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 1960s 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 Cinemanews, and from other key sources, MacDonald offers a lively chronicle of the life and times of this influential, idiosyncratic film exhibition and distribution collective. His book features many primary documents.
Item Description:Stan Brakhage: Remarks Following at Screening of "The Text of Light" at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974.
Physical Description:1 online resource (480 pages).
ISBN:9780520940611