The Cinema of Robert Gardner (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION Resounding Images, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor, both Harvard University PART I: OVERVIEWS 1. The Music of Robert Gardner, Charles Warren, Boston University 2. Beyond the Burden of the Real: Anthropological Reflections on the Technique of a Master Cutter, Paul Henley, University of Manchester 3. The Burden of Symbols: Film and Representation in India, Marcus Banks, University of Oxford 4. Gardner's First Shots: Vectored Landscapes, Karl G. Heider, University of South Carolina 5. Out of Words: A Conversation with Robert Gardner, Ilisa Barbash, Harvard University PART II: THE FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS 6. The Camera in the Studio: Robert Gardner's Passenger, Anna Grimshaw, Emory University 7. Dancing with Gardner, William Rothman, University of Miami 8. Gardner's Bliss, David MacDougall, Australian National University 10. Gardens of War: Materiality and the Photographic Narrative, Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts London 9. Interactive Media and the Construction(s) of Memory in Nonfiction Film: The Case of Dead Birds, Roderick Coover, Temple University PART III: REMINISCENCES 11. Anecdote of a Season, Stanley Cavell, Harvard University 12. The Ethnographer's (Visual) Knowledge: Fieldwork with Camera and Notebook in Vishnupur, 1982 and 1983, Akos Ostor, Wesleyan University 13. The Rock of Gibraltar, Dusan Makavejev, Independent Filmmaker 14. Bob Gardner and Me, Sean Scully, Artist 15. 58 Highland Street, Susan Howe, State University of New York at Buffalo