Scott MacDonald

Scott MacDonald is author of the five volumes of the Critical Cinema series (University of California Press); The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (University of California Press, 2001); and the just-published Adventures of Perception: Cinema As Exploration (University of California Press, 2009), which includes a more detailed version of his interview with Nuridsany and Pérennou. He is currently Visiting Professor of Film History at Hamilton College, in Clinton, New York.

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Xiaoming Wang

Hear author Xiaoming Wang interviewed by Vittorio Maestro, Editor in Chief of Natural History. (MP3, 17 minutes)