Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema

by Scott MacDonald

Book Overview

MacDonald explores the cinematic territory between the traditional categories of "documentary" and "avant-garde" film, through candid, in-depth conversations with filmmakers whose work has challenged these categories. Arranged in an imaginative chronology and written to be accessible to any film-interested reader, the interviews in Avant-Doc chart half a century of thinking by inventive filmmakers such as Robert Gardner, Ed Pincus, Alfred Guzzetti,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199388717
• ISBN13: 9780199388714
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"