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Canyon Cinema the life and times of an independent film distributor

Title
Canyon Cinema [electronic resource] : the life and times of an independent film distributor / Scott MacDonald.
ISBN
9780520940611
0520250869 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520250877 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520250864 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520250871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (461 p. :) : ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement II.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Film, Theater and Performing Arts Supplement II.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Formation
Portfolio
Announcement of publication of canyon cinema news, 1962
An essay on censorship [1964] / Saul Landau
Report from on the road, filming ... [1964] / Bruce Baillie
Denunciation of the Ann Arbor Film Festival [1965] / Gregory Markopoulos
Letter from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, April 1, 1965 / George Manupelli
On His Blindness [1965] / George Manupelli
2. Incorporation
Conversation with Edith Kramer, July 2001
Portfolio
Letter from Chapala, Mexico, January 1967 / Bruce Baillie
Letter from San Francisco, February 18, 1967 / Bruce Conner
Open Letter to Film-makers, June 12, 1967 / Robert Nelson
Letter [1967] / Bruce Baillie
Rebuttal to Robt. Nelson's "Open Letter to Film-makers" [1967] / Robert Pike
Bruce Baillie's Prejudiced Guide to Film Festivals [1967] / Bruce Baillie
Review of Sheldon Renan's An Introduction to the American Underground Film [1967] / Emory Menefee
Letter [1967) / Will Hindle
The Brussels Festival [1968] / Robert Nelson
The Swedish proposal for new American cinema, and some miscellaneous notes [1968] / Robert Nelson
Letter from San Francisco, April 1968 / Will Hindle
Notes from the Creative Film Society : Pros and Cons of Theatrical Bookings [1968] / Robert Pike
News from the Australian Undependents [1968]
Letter to John Schofill [1968] / Barry Spinello
Notes from the Creative Film Society [1968] / Robert Pike
Letter, August 6, 1968, and Emory Menefee's response / Bruce Conner
The story of a closet cine-drama ... or ... From isolation to immortality [1968] / Robert Pike
Some thoughts about the Bellevue Film Festival two weeks after judging it [1968] / Robert Nelson
Letter, September 10 [1968] / Will Hindle
Letter, "August, beginning of September" [1968] / Bruce Baillie
Letter [1969] / Will Hindle
Fan letter to Bruce Conner [1969] / John Lennon
Letter from Oakland, California [1969] / Barry Spinello
Exchanges (Letters) [1969] / Bruce Conner and Jonas Mekas
Letter [1969] / Ed Emshwiller
Letter [1970] / Stan Brakhage
Letter from Alabama, January 1970 / Will Hindle
I Lost It at the Movies or Electro-Videograph Interface Meets Mr. Natural [1970] / Jon Jost
Letter [1970] / Bruce Baillie
Canyon Cinema Board of Directors' Meeting Minutes [May 20, 1970]
Right Back to the Billabong [1970) / Arthur Cantrill
Poem [1970] / Scott Bartlett
Letter [1970] / Robert Nelson
Letter [1972] / Bruce Conner
Letter [1972] / Chick Strand
Underground Myths and Cinema Cooperative Realities (some concrete policy suggestions) [1972] / Jon Jost
Eight drawings [1972] / Bruce Conner
Whatever became of Canyon Cinema Co-operative? [1972] / Don Lloyd
Letter from Bangkok [1972] / Peter Hutton
Canyon Cinema, What Next? [1973] / Ken DeRoux
3. Revitalization
Conversation with Diane Kitchen, March 2002
Portfolio
Peter Kubelka at the Cinematheque, October 3,1974
Recuperating at His Forest Place in the Mountains of North Alabama, September 1974 / Will Hindle
Remarks Following a Screening of The Text of Light at the San Francisco Art Institute on November 18, 1974 / Stan Brakhage
Letter, March 1975 / Bruce Baillie
Waiting for Godard at the Front: The Palestinian Cinema Institution [1975] / Lyle Pearson
How to Cope with the Question Period [1975] / James Broughton
Australian Coop News [1975] / Albie Thoms
Prayag in 35mm: The Film and Television Institute of India [1975] / Lyle Pearson
Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach [1976] / Diane Kitchen and Gunvor Nelson
Letter from Lower Appalachians, Late June 1978 / Will Hindle
Letter and Excerpts from a Conversation with Stan Brakhage [On Death and The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, 1977] / Willie Varela
What Is a Poetry Film? [1977] / Herman Berlandt
Bit of Scuttlebutt ... [1977] / Commodore Sloat
Three Poems (A Rune for Jerome Hill, Tomfool for President, and A Prelude for Brakhage) [1977] / James Broughton
Discussion with George Landow [1977] / Steve Ellman
Letter, April 22, 1977 / Commodore Sloat
Windowmobile [1977] / James Broughton
4. Intellectualization
Conversation with Bruce Conner, July 2001
Portfolio
Art Liberation Front Dis'course on Avant-Garde Film [1977] / Joe Gibbons
Hyper Kinetic Stan/dards [1977] / Henry Hills
Hollis Frampton in San Francisco [April 21/29, 1977]
Body-Centered Film [1977] / Barbara Hammer
Thundercrack (cartoon) [1977] / George Kuchar
Matinee [1978] / Abigail Child
Dietrich Dossier (cartoon) [1978] / George Kuchar
ALF Communique [1978] / Joe Gibbons
Letter to Henry Hills, January 13, 1978 / Stan Brakhage
Letter [1978] / David White
George Kuchar in Europe (an interview) [1978] / Henry Hills
Aunt Kastune [1978] / Jonas Mekas
Tony Conrad in San Francisco, February 28, 1978
Child Labor [1978] / Henry Hills
Letter, February 18, 1978 / Commodore Sloat
Letter, September 22, 1968 / Bruce Conner
Robert Nelson Interview [1978] / Henry Hills
George Landow at the Cinematheque, May 18, 1978
Hollis Frampton in San Francisco, part 2 [1977]
Yvonne Rainer at the Cinematheque, April 6, 1978
Violence [1978] / Abigail Child
Some Unseen Lights [1978] / James Broughton
Sketchbook (November-December 1977) / Art Spiegelman
To Whom It ... [1979] / Diana Barrie
Survival in the Independent-Non-Commercial-Avant-Garde- Experimental-Personal-Expressionistic Film Market of 1979 / Larry Jordan
How to Read II [1979] / Peter Seaton
1st Milarepa Gatha [1979] / Jackson Mac Low
Film Syntax [1979] / Warren Sonbert
Films of Aline Mayer [1979] / Abigail Child
Letter, December 24, 1979, and New York Cut the Crap [1980] / Gary Doberman
Film Syntax (Continued) [1980] / Warran Sonbert
"What's a Picnic without Potato Salad!" [1980] / Caroline Savage Lee
Letter, May 16, 1980 / Freude Bartlett
Letter, Late June [1980] / Bruce Baillie
Chick Strand at the Cinematheque, March 6, 1980
Conversation with Chick Strand [1980] / Gunvor Nelson
Letter, c. 1980 / Ben Van Meter
Letter, September 10, 1980 / Henry Hills
Letter, September 18, 1980 / Chick Strand
5. Maintenance
Conversation with Dominic Angerame, August 2002 and May 2006
Portfolio
Letters to Canyon Cinema Sent during the Film/Video Debate of 1994 (from Tom DeWitt, George Kuchar, Robert Nelson, and Stan Brakhage)
Letter from Camano Island, October 10, 1994 / Bruce Baillie
App. 1. Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present
App. 2. Canyon Cinema's Gross Rentals and Sales, from 1966 until 2006-2007.
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