title
:
A Critical Cinema : Interviews With Independent Filmmakers
author
:
MacDonald, Scott.
publisher
:
University of California Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0520079183
print isbn13
:
9780520079182
ebook isbn13
:
9780585335100
language
:
English
subject
Experimental films--United States--History and criticism, Independent filmmakers--United States--Interviews.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
PN1995.9.E96M34 1992eb
ddc
:
791.43/75/0973
subject
:
Experimental films--United States--History and criticism, Independent filmmakers--United States--Interviews.
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A Critical Cinema 2
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Scott MacDonald
Page iv
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press
Oxford, England
Copyright © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
MacDonald, Scott, 1942
A critical cinema.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: p. 423-435.
1. Experimental filmsUnited StatesHistory and
criticism. 2. Motion picture producers and directors
United StatesInterviews. I. Title.
PN1995.9.E96M34 1988 791.43'75'0973 87-6004
ISBN 0-520-05800-3 (v. 1: cloth)
ISBN 0-520-05801-1 (v. 1: pbk.)
ISBN 0-520-07917-5 (v. 2: cloth)
ISBN 0-520-07918-3 (v. 2: pbk.)
Printed in the United States of America
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Page v
To my best teachers:
Patricia O'Connor, Peter Watkins,
J. J. Murphy, Bob Huot, Morgan Fisher,
Frank Bergmann, Su Friedrich, Ian MacDonald
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Robert Breer
15
Michael Snow
51
Jonas Mekas
77
Bruce Baillie
109
Yoko Ono
139
Anthony McCall
157
Andrew Noren
175
Anne Robertson
206
James Benning
220
Lizzie Borden
249
Ross McElwee
265
Su Friedrich
283
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Anne Severson (On Near the Big Chakra)
319
Laura Mulvey (On Riddles of the Sphinx)
333
Yvonne Rainer (On Privilege)
344
Trinh T. Minh-ha
355
Godfrey Reggio
378
Peter Watkins
402
Filmography
423
Bibliography
437
Index
449
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the following journals for permission to reprint interviews and, in some cases, my introductory comments:
Film Quarterly,
for "Southern Exposure: An Interview with Ross McElwee," vol. 41, no. 4 (Summer 1988), pp. 1323; "Yoko Ono: Ideas on Film (Interview/Scripts)," vol. 43, no. 1 (Fall 1989), pp. 223; ''Illuminations: An Interview with Andrew Noren," vol. 44, no. 3 (Spring 1991), pp. 3043; "Demystifying the Female BodyTwo Interviews: Anne Severson
Near the Big Chakra
/Yvonne Rainer
Privilege,
" vol. 45, no. 1 (Fall 1991), pp. 1832.
Afterimage,
for "Interview with James Benning," vol. 9, no. 5 (December 1981), pp. 1219; "Interview with Anthony McCall," vol. 15, no. 5 (December 1987), pp. 69; "Damned If You Don't: An Interview with Su Friedrich," vol. 15, no. 10 (May 1988), pp. 610.
The Independent,
for "The Nuclear War Film: Peter Watkins Interviewed," vol. 7, no. 9 (October 1984), pp. 2224, 32; "Daddy Dearest: Su Friedrich Talks about Filmmaking, Family, Feminism," vol. 13, no. 10 (December 1990), pp. 2834.
Cinematograph,
for "A Picture a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: An Interview with Anne Robertson," vol. 4 (1991), pp. 5366.
Feminist Studies,
for "Interview with Lizzie Borden." Article reprinted from
Feminist Studies,
vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 327345, by permission of the publisher, Feminist Studies, Inc., c/o Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742.
Journal of Film and Video (Journal of the University Film Associa
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