The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama

by Scott MacDonald

The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema.

The book uses the early history of the museum habitat diorama of animal life, specifically the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, as a way of rethinking both early and modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190052139
• ISBN13: 9780190052133
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"