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

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MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520926455
0520926455
9780520227385
0520227387
128049204X
9781280492044
9786613587275
6613587273

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place.DDC classification:

791.43/611 21

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.E96

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index.

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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.

English.

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