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Scott MacDonald

B.A., De Pauw University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida. Recipient: Clark Award for Outstanding Scholarship, NEH Fellowship. Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation honoree.

Programmed events and film series at Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Robert Flaherty Seminar, Centre Georges Pompidou, NEH summer institutes. Books include A Critical Cinema; The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place; Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society; Screen Writings; Avant-Garde Film/Motion Studies. Contributor to Film Quarterly, The Independent, Wide Angle, Afterimage, ISLE. Editor, Wide Angle Books Series, Temple University Press.

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Scott MacDonald holds a B.A. from De Pauw University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida; he received the Clark Award for Outstanding Scholarship, an NEH Fellowship, and was named an Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation honoree. He programmed events and film series at Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, the Robert Flaherty Seminar, Centre Georges Pompidou and NEH summer institutes; his books include A Critical Cinema; The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place; Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society; Screen Writings; and Avant-Garde Film/Motion Studies; he has contributed to Film Quarterly, The Independent, Wide Angle, Afterimage and ISLE and edits the Wide Angle Books Series at Temple University Press.

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