Dear Frameworkers:
I want you to know about my two new books.
*Book 1:*
*Comprehending Cinema* is now available from Oxford University Press. It
includes 15 filmmaker interviews (with Su Friedrich; Guy Maddin/Evan and
Galen Johnson; John Asbery; Tadhg O'Sullivan, Jennifer West, Penny Lane,
Dean Fleischer Camp, Daniel LIndsay/TJ Martin; Jennifer Anderson/Vernon
Lott; Paul Cronin; Bill Morrison; Véréna Paravel/Lucien Castaing-Taylor;
Erin Espelie; Chloé Galibert-Laîné; and the Alloy Orchestra (Terry
Donahue/Roger Miller/Ken Winokur).
The interviews are interrupted by three entr'actes: "Night Light: the
Modern Cine-Nocturne" (on films by Rebecca Meyers, Mary Beth Reed, Abbas
Kiarostami, Chick Strand, Peter Hutton, Phil Solomon, and Laura
Waddington): "Sergei Loznitsa x 4" (a survey of the Ukrainian filmmaker's
work, with comments by Loznitsa); and "Recent Archival Engagements with
'The War to End All Wars'" (on Bill Morrison's *Below Zero*, Gianikian and
Ricci Lucchi's war trilogy, and Peter Jackson's *They Shall Not Grow Old*).
*Book 2:*
*Publication as Autobiography: Occasional and Forsaken Texts--and
Endangered Cinematic Species *is available from Sticking Place Books. It
includes 27 (mostly short) essays on a wide range of topics, arranged
chronologically in terms of when they were written, from early essays on
Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and on Erskine Caldwell's short
stories; on Emmett Williams' *THE VOY AGE*, and Amos Vogel's *Film As a
Subversive Art*; on films by Larry Gottheim, JJ Murphy, Peter Watkins,
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Robert Nelson, Kano Shiho, James Benning, Peter Hutton,
Gustav Deutsch; on films and paintings by Bob Huot, on the TV series *My
So-Called Life*, on mixed-media works by Patrick Clancy and Hollis
Frampton, and on the films and recent films and video-essay works of Max
Tohline.
* * * * *
*AN AFTERNOON WITH SCOTT MacDONALD*
*WHEN*: Saturday 23 November 2024, 2:30pm
*WHERE*: Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NY Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square
South
Free, open to public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP here <[email protected]>.
This month sees two new books: *Comprehending Cinema*, the concluding
volume of his 'avant-doc trilogy' for Oxford University Press; and *Publication
as Autobiography: Occasional and Forsaken Texts - and Endangered Cinema
Species* (Sticking Place Books <https://www.thestickingplace.com/spb/>).
Both, in their different ways, exemplify his lifetime commitment to
"creating awareness of cultural achievements that have remained underserved
or are in danger of fading from cultural memory."
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The afternoon's programme will include short films by Max Tohline and Chloé
Galibert-Laíné. MacDonald will also be in conversation with *DAVID
LaROCCA, *author or contributing editor of seventeen books. He edited
Stanley Cavell's Emerson's *Transcendental Etudes* (2003) and *Metacinema*
(2021).
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Discounted copies of *Comprehending Cinema* and *Publication as
Autobiography* will be available for sale/ signing.
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*THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE
<https://www.instagram.com/colloquium_unpopular_culture/?hl=en>* (est.
2007): falling and laughing...
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