The garden in the machine :: a field guide to independent films about place /

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 informe...

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1. Verfasser: MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Schriftenreihe:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index.
ISBN:9780520926455
0520926455
9780520227385
0520227387
128049204X
9781280492044
9786613587275
6613587273