Bøger af Scott Macdonald

Megan Brandt was a shy, lonely teenager secretly in love with a boy in school who didn't even know she existed. It's a common scenario that many young girls face and the resolution is typically something simple, like a makeover. Megan's solution, however, was a little less prosaic than that. She chose to enter into a contract to have her wish fulfilled magically by a bitter and alcoholic 132yr. old Gypsy fortuneteller with a lot of unresolved anger issues. A makeover would've been so much easier. Years later, long after the wish had been made, the time had finally come for the people involved to seek out each other and understand the truth of what really happened on that one miraculous night.

My Friend Charlie is a picture and cartoon book for young readers and dog lovers. Each cartoon figure represents a key lifestyle recommendation such as Enjoy the Day, Be Curious, Learn from Others and Be Yourself. The cartoons are followed by pictures of Charlie demonstrating the lifestyle. Charlie is a darling Cavalier King Charles puppy. Page spreads are color coordinated representing beautiful poses and backgrounds. It will be difficult not to fall in love with the photogenic Charlie. Charlie will most likely become a child's good friend, and he or she will learn important lessons as they reread the cartoon captions and Charlie's advice. There are also family pictures showing Charlie with family members and five hilarious dog related cartoons guaranteed to make the reader laugh, whether an adult or child. The book was intended for children from pre-school to ten years old, but anyone may enjoy the colorful characters and the unsurpassed joy of Charlie depicted in the many photographs.

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves's remarkable career.

From 1946 until 1954, 'Art in Cinema' presented programs of independent film to audiences at the San Francisco Museum of Art and at the University of California, Berkeley. This book offers documentation of this film society and is intended for cineastes, students, teachers and scholars.

As the most successful and influential film society in American history, Cinema 16 was a crucial organization for the creation of a public space for the full range of cinema achievement in the years following World War II. This title provides a sense of the life and work of the society, using the complete Cinema 16 program announcements.

This book is intended for students, policy makers, lawyers and experts in the field of substance use and crashes. I describe in simple terms epidemiological issues important for understanding whether conclusions from studies are justifiable and discover numerous myths and truths about cannabis and driving.

Are you trying hard but still fearful, overloaded, and unsure?Inside you will find a simple structure for powerful change.Nutrition: Eat more! Learn what, when, why and how to eat.Learn about why you haven’t been able to do that already.Physical Wellness: A simple program you can do anywhere,structured for a “no time for myself” life. Sustainable by anyoneat any level.Pregnancy and Your Relationship: What you can expect to happenthroughout the pregnancy and what you can do to support her and yourself.“Tremendous! Acknowledging what every expectant father feels, but never admits. His Adrenaline Factor plan informs and inspires men to get in front of their fatherhood fears with leadership and participation. Wish I’d read this 35 years ago before my first son was born!”Bob MuellerSpeaker, Author, Emmy Award Winning Artist

The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the films under consideration and an expanded sense of modern film history. Among the many antecedents to the films and videos discussed here are Thomas Cole's landscape painting, Thoreau's Walden, Olmsted and Vaux's Central Park, and Eadweard Muybridge's panoramic photographs of San Francisco. MacDonald analyzes the work of many accomplished avant-garde filmmakers: Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, James Benning, Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Larry Gottheim, Robert Huot, Peter Hutton, Marjorie Keller, Rose Lowder, Marie Menken, J.J. Murphy, Andrew Noren, Pat O'Neill, Leighton Pierce, Carolee Schneemann, and Chick Strand. He also examines a variety of recent commercial feature films, as well as independent experiments in documentary and such contributions to independent video history as George Kuchar's Weather Diaries and Ellen Spiro's Roam Sweet Home. MacDonald reveals the spiritual underpinnings of these works and shows how issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class are conveyed as filmmakers attempt to discover forms of Edenic serenity within the Machine of modern society. Both personal and scholarly, The Garden in the Machine will be an invaluable resource for those interested in investigating and experiencing a broader spectrum of cinema in their teaching, in their research, and in their lives.

Bringing alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history, Scott MacDonald tells the colorful story of how a small, backyard organization in the San Francisco Bay Area emerged in the 1960s and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema. Drawing from extensive conversations with men and women crucial to Canyon Cinema, from its newsletter Canyon Cinemanews, and from other key sources, MacDonald offers a lively chronicle of the life and times of this influential, idiosyncratic film exhibition and distribution collective. His book features many primary documents that are as engaging and relevant now as they were when originally published, including essays, poetry, experimental writing, and drawings.

A compilation of interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. It features interviews reflecting a wide range of approaches to filmmaking.

A collection of interviews with independent filmmakers. It reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues. It explores the careers of Robert Breer, Trinh T Minh-ha, James Benning, Su Friedrich, and Godfrey Reggio.

American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatism's focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century.

This study provides a systematic overview of drug control efforts in the 1980s and the 1990s. It points to 10 major trends in current developments and to 3 probable shocks in the immediate future, assessing targets and networks for combatting the drug trade in the next decade.

A collection of interviews with some of the most accomplished 'critical' filmmakers. It demonstrates the sophistication of their thinking about film (and a wide range of other concerns) and offers an introduction to this important area of independent cinema.

A collection of thematically related personal essays and conversations with filmmakers. It takes us on a journey into many under-explored territories of cinema. It illuminates topics including race and avant-garde film, the political implications of the nature film, and the inventive single shot films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped their work. The interviews are arranged to express the remarkable diversity of modern independent cinema and the interactive community of filmmakers that has dedicated itself to producing forms of cinema that critique conventional media.

Among the problems that will have to be faced, according to the author, are Cuba's role as an active middleman in the drug trade, the U.S. market for illegal drugs, the impact of the drug trade on U.S. policy in the region, and the interrelationship of the drug problem to the Latin Americn debt crisis.