Bringing alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history, Scott Mac Donald 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, Mac Donald 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.
Table of Content
Introduction
1. Formation
2. Incorporation
Conversation with Edith Kramer
Portfolio
3. Revitalization
Conversation with Diane Kitchen, 3/02
Portfolio
4: Intellectualization
Conversation with Bruce Conner, 7/01
Portfolio
5: Maintenance
Conversation with Dominic Angerame, 8/02
Porfolio
Appendix 1: Canyon Cinema Employees, 1969 to the Present
Appendix 2. Canyon Cinema’s Gross Rentals and Sales, 1966–2005
Credits
Index
About the author
Scott Mac Donald is author of the five volumes of the Critical Cinema series (UC Press), of The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (UC Press), and of several other books on avant-garde film and on institutions that have kept avant-garde film alive. He is currently Visiting Professor of Film History at Hamilton College and at Harvard University.
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