Table of Contents

Foreword by J. Hoberman Preface BINGHAMTON BABYLON (a nonfiction novel) Introduction The Voices The Weave 1. Emergence 2. First Flush 3. Maelstrom 4. Collision 5. New Directions 6. Younger Colleagues and More Visitors 7. Politics 8. Denouncement Appendix 1: "A Pedagogical Cinema" Appendix 2: Ken Jacobs by Art Spiegelman Acknowledgments Index

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.

Reviews

"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