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Canyon Cinema : the life and times of an independent film distributor / Scott MacDonald.

Author/creator MacDonald, Scott, 1942-
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Subject(s)
Contents 1. Formation -- Portfolio -- Announcement of publication of canyon cinema news, 1962 -- An essay on censorship [1964] / Saul Landau -- Report from on the road, filming ... [1964] / Bruce Baillie -- Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] / Gregory Markopoulos -- Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 / George Manupelli -- On His Blindness [1965] / George Manupelli -- 2. Incorporation -- Conversation with Edith Kramer, July 2001 -- Portfolio -- Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 / Bruce Baillie -- Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 / Bruce Conner -- Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 / Robert Nelson -- Letter [1967] / Bruce Baillie -- Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967] / Robert Pike -- Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] / Bruce Baillie -- Review of Sheldon Renan's An Introduction to the American Underground Film [1967] / Emory Menefee -- Letter [1967) / Will Hindle -- The Brussels Festival [1968] / Robert Nelson -- The Swedish proposal for new American cinema, and some miscellaneous notes [1968] / Robert Nelson -- Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 / Will Hindle -- Notes from the Creative Film Society : Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] / Robert Pike -- News from the Australian Undependents [1968] -- Letter to John Schofill [1968] / Barry Spinello -- Notes from the Creative Film Society [1968] / Robert Pike -- Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee's response / Bruce Conner -- The story of a closet cine-drama ... or ... From isolation to immortality [1968] / Robert Pike -- Some thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival two weeks after judging it [1968] / Robert Nelson -- Letter, September 10 [1968] / Will Hindle -- Letter, "August, beginning of September" [1968] / Bruce Baillie -- Letter [1969] / Will Hindle -- Fan letter to Bruce Conner [1969] / John Lennon -- Letter from Oakland, California [1969] / Barry Spinello -- Exchanges (Letters) [1969] / Bruce Conner and Jonas Mekas -- Letter [1969] / Ed Emshwiller -- Letter [1970] / Stan Brakhage -- Letter from Alabama, January 1970 / Will Hindle -- I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] / Jon Jost -- Letter [1970] / Bruce Baillie -- Canyon Cinema Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970] -- Right Back to the Billabong [1970) / Arthur Cantrill -- Poem [1970] / Scott Bartlett -- Letter [1970] / Robert Nelson -- Letter [1972] / Bruce Conner -- Letter [1972] / Chick Strand -- Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperative Realities (some concrete policy suggestions) [1972] / Jon Jost -- Eight drawings [1972] / Bruce Conner -- Whatever became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] / Don Lloyd -- Letter from Bangkok [1972] / Peter Hutton -- Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] / Ken DeRoux -- 3. Revitalization -- Conversation with Diane Kitchen, March 2002 -- Portfolio -- Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3,1974 -- Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 / Will Hindle -- Remarks Following a Screening of The Text of Light at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 / Stan Brakhage -- Letter, March 1975 / Bruce Baillie -- Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] / Lyle Pearson -- How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] / James Broughton -- Australian Coop News [1975] / Albie Thoms -- Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] / Lyle Pearson -- Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] / Diane Kitchen and Gunvor Nelson -- Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1978 / Will Hindle -- Letter and Excerpts from a Conversation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, 1977] / Willie Varela -- What Is a Poetry Film? [1977] / Herman Berlandt -- Bit of Scuttlebutt ... [1977] / Commodore Sloat -- Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] / James Broughton -- Discussion with George Landow [1977] / Steve Ellman -- Letter, April 22, 1977 / Commodore Sloat -- Windowmobile [1977] / James Broughton -- 4. Intellectualization -- Conversation with Bruce Conner, July 2001 -- Portfolio -- Art Liberation Front Dis'course on Avant-Garde Film [1977] / Joe Gibbons -- Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] / Henry Hills -- Hollis Frampton in San Francisco [April 21/29, 1977] -- Body-Centered Film [1977] / Barbara Hammer -- Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977] / George Kuchar -- Matinee [1978] / Abigail Child -- Dietrich Dossier (cartoon) [1978] / George Kuchar -- ALF Communique [1978] / Joe Gibbons -- Letter to Henry Hills, January 13, 1978 / Stan Brakhage -- Letter [1978] / David White -- George Kuchar in Europe (an interview) [1978] / Henry Hills -- Aunt Kastune [1978] / Jonas Mekas -- Tony Conrad in San Francisco, February 28, 1978 -- Child Labor [1978] / Henry Hills -- Letter, February 18, 1978 / Commodore Sloat -- Letter, September 22, 1968 / Bruce Conner -- Robert Nelson Interview [1978] / Henry Hills -- George Landow at the Cinematheque, May 18, 1978 -- Hollis Frampton in San Francisco, part 2 [1977] -- Yvonne Rainer at the Cinematheque, April 6, 1978 -- Violence [1978] / Abigail Child -- Some Unseen Lights [1978] / James Broughton -- Sketchbook (November-December 1977) / Art Spiegelman -- To Whom It ... [1979] / Diana Barrie -- Survival in the Independent-Non-Commercial-Avant-Garde- Experimental-Personal-Expressionistic Film Market of 1979 / Larry Jordan -- How to Read II [1979] / Peter Seaton -- 1st Milarepa Gatha [1979] / Jackson Mac Low -- Film Syntax [1979] / Warren Sonbert -- Films of Aline Mayer [1979] / Abigail Child -- Letter, December 24, 1979, and New York Cut the Crap [1980] / Gary Doberman -- Film Syntax (Continued) [1980] / Warran Sonbert -- "What's a Picnic without Potato Salad!" [1980] / Caroline Savage Lee -- Letter, May 16, 1980 / Freude Bartlett -- Letter, Late June [1980] / Bruce Baillie -- Chick Strand at the Cinematheque, March 6, 1980 -- Conversation with Chick Strand [1980] / Gunvor Nelson -- Letter, c. 1980 / Ben Van Meter -- Letter, September 10, 1980 / Henry Hills -- Letter, September 18, 1980 / Chick Strand -- 5. Maintenance -- Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006 -- Portfolio -- Letters to Canyon Cinema Sent during the Film/Video Debate of 1994 (from Tom DeWitt, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, and Stan Brakhage) -- Letter from Camano Island, October 10, 1994 / Bruce Baillie -- App. 1. Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present -- App. 2. Canyon Cinema's Gross Rentals and Sales, from 1966 until 2006-2007.
General note"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007009532
ISBN9780520250864 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520250869 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520250871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520250877 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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