A Critical Cinema 1: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

by Scott MacDonald

Book Overview

It is widely understood that writing can discuss writing, but we rarely consider that film can be used as a means of analyzing conventions of the commercial film industry, or of theorizing about cinema in general. Over the past few decades, however, independent cinema has produced a body of fascinating films that provide intensive critiques of nearly every element of the cinematic apparatus. The experience of these films simultaneously depends on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520058011
• ISBN13: 9780520058019
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"