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.

"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

• Foreword by J. HobermanPrefaceBINGHAMTON BABYLON (a nonfiction novel) IntroductionThe VoicesThe Weave1. Emergence2. First Flush3. Maelstrom4. Collision5. New Directions6. Younger Colleagues and More Visitors7. Politics8. DenouncementAppendix 1: "A Pedagogical Cinema"Appendix 2: Ken Jacobs by Art SpiegelmanAcknowledgmentsIndex

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.

"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

• Foreword by J. HobermanPrefaceBINGHAMTON BABYLON (a nonfiction novel) IntroductionThe VoicesThe Weave1. Emergence2. First Flush3. Maelstrom4. Collision5. New Directions6. Younger Colleagues and More Visitors7. Politics8. DenouncementAppendix 1: "A Pedagogical Cinema"Appendix 2: Ken Jacobs by Art SpiegelmanAcknowledgmentsIndex

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.

"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

• Foreword by J. HobermanPrefaceBINGHAMTON BABYLON (a nonfiction novel) IntroductionThe VoicesThe Weave1. Emergence2. First Flush3. Maelstrom4. Collision5. New Directions6. Younger Colleagues and More Visitors7. Politics8. DenouncementAppendix 1: "A Pedagogical Cinema"Appendix 2: Ken Jacobs by Art SpiegelmanAcknowledgmentsIndex