Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department 1967-1

Product description Review "With Binghamton Babylon ... Scott MacDonald excavates another fascinating byway of American film history ... Weaving together interviews into what he describes as a 'nonfiction novel, ' MacDonald fashions a deeply revealing account of the avant-garde in academia." - Fandor"This is an important episode in film history and in particular the history of the cinematic avant-garde, and it is exciting to have so many voices from the time assembled in one volume. A terrific book!" - Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University"Binghamton Babylon is an enormously important contribution to film, video, and media historiography." - David Sterritt, author of The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America About the Author Scott M. MacDonald is Professor of Film History at Hamilton College. His many books include A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (now in five volumes); Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema; and American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn. In 2011 he was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.