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Scott MacDonald
D. Scott MacDonald's father, W. Blair MacDonald had a keen interest in the changing landscape of Charlottetown, and documented a number of these changes with his slide camera. Instilled with…
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Comprehending Cinema is a collection of in-depth interviews and panoramic essays that model a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our…
The goal of virtually all my writing has been to bring attention to cinematic (and, early on, literary) accomplishments that have not received the careful attention, or the audiences, they…
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Walter Scott
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot, a classical book, has been considered important…
John MacDonald, Scott Thorson, David Misialowski
Join young Billy and Beatrice, squabbling siblings, as they visit imaginary neighborhoods in different time periods, and even blast off into outer space! Engaging with oddball characters like Mr. Whom…
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Scott Macdonald
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…
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…
In 1910, the great battleship with huge guns was the ultimate expression of naval power. Yet, already one rival had appeared with the emergence of submarines whose torpedoes could sink…
This workbook is designed to provide a good grounding of the most commonly used analytic approaches in the health sciences, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Topics…
In exploring this tradition of philosophical reflection on the nature of goodness, the twelve essays in this book (all but two published here for the first time) present some of…
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…
This book profiles fifty American families and their ancestry including charts and colored renderings. Ancestors are introduced in their historical context, with emphasis on major key events
A children's book consisting of colored illustrations from well-known cartoonist Marty Bucella depicting dogs in various poses demonstrating a theme, pictures of Charlie, a Cavalier King Charles puppy, and hilarious…
This book profiles fifty American families and their ancestry including charts and colored renderings. Ancestors are introduced in their historical context, with emphasis on major key events.
Fit for Fatherhood is a book about change, more accurately a book on laying an authentic foundation and understanding how you have learned to avoid growth. It utilizes the time…
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…
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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…
Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this book offers a reference work of film history and a sampling of experimental ‘language art’. It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries…
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.
This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video.
The next installment in Scott MacDonald’s highly aclaimed series of interviews with independent film makers from around the world.
An exploration of independent cinema available in English. It engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical currents that have shaped…
Presents the 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…
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…
Tells the history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows…
Scott Macdonald,Amos Vogel
The history of Cinema 16 - the nation’s first film society - through letters, programs, interviews, and the society’s own documents
Scott MacDonald (Syracuse University, New York)
The past thirty years have seen the proliferation of forms of independent cinema that challenge the conventions of mass-market commercial movies from within the movie theatre. Avant-Garde Film examines fifteen…
Georges A. Fauriol,Scott Macdonald
Growing global interdependence made the 1970s and 1980s a volatile period in the sugar trade at a time when Caribbean countries, while not the major world producers of sugar, were…
Scott Macdonald,Bruce Zagaris
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…
Aquinas’ discussions of moral issues are extensive, ranging well beyond the set of issues in the modern tradition of moral philosophy. This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide…
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…
Scott B. MacDonald
This book examines the cocaine trade in the Andean states and Panana with a special emphasis given to the relationship between cocaine and power. MacDonald examines the linkages between the…
With the fall of its centuries-old empire in 1974-1975, Portugal embarked on a transitional period that reconciled a long tradition of acting out national interests overseas with the need to…
European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations is an important addition to the literature on post-Cold War politics. It will be read by historians, economists, and foreign policy specialists.
Scott D. MacDonald
In Education without Debt businessman and philanthropist Scott MacDonald examines the real-life impact of crushing levels of student debt on borrowers and what can be done to fix this crisis.
This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean. The primary argument is that the Caribbean’s geopolitics have shifted from a period of relative great power…
Andrew F. Macdonald,Gina Macdonald
Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the…
Examines a broad range of issues around drug testing that might interest researchers, program planners, policymakers, and employers. Among them are the cost of drug and alcohol use on the…
Patricia R. Zimmermann,Scott MacDonald
Minh-ha, Bruce Conner, Peter Watkins, Su Friedrich, Marlon Riggs, William Greaves, Ken Jacobs, Kazuo Hara, Mani Kaul, Craig Baldwin, Bahman Ghobadi, Eyal Sivan, and many others.
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.
Scott D. MacDonald,Sadie
With whimsy and insight, CEO Scott MacDonald and rescue dog Sadie reveal how you can have a more rewarding life and a more successful career with important lessons in loyalty…
