| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Garden in the Machine, ; Chapter 2. Voyages of Life; Chapter 3. Avant-Gardens; Chapter 4. Re-envisioning the American West; Chapter 5. From the Sublime to the Vernacular; Chapter 6. The City as Motion Picture; Chapter 7. The Country in the City; Chapter 8. Rural (and Urban) Hours; Chapter 9. Expulsion from the Garden; Chapter 10. Satan's National Park; Chapter 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers; Appendix; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- History and criticism.
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Experimental films. |
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Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery.
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Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacDonald, Scott, 1942- Garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520227379 0520227387 (OCoLC)59477118 |
| ISBN |
9780520926455 (electronic book) |
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0520926455 (electronic book) |
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9780520227385 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520227387 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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128049204X |
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9781280492044 |
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0520227379 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0520227387 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780520227378 |
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