EJAS Publishes Review of MacDonald’s Comprehending Cinema

A review of Comprehending Cinema: Panoramic Audiovisioning, by Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald, was recently published in the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS).

In the review, Kornelia Boczkowska, of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, wrote about the third book in MacDonald’s “Avant Trilogy,” calling Comprehending Cinema “living proof of MacDonald’s lifelong commitment to independent filmmaking and his passion for educating future generations of cinephiles.” The book includes 15 of MacDonald’s in-depth interviews with filmmakers, as well as several essays. 

Boczkowska called Comprehending Cinema “one of MacDonald’s most ambitious projects to date, offering a thorough, interdisciplinary coverage of lesser-known films, themes, approaches, traditions and moving image forms that deserve more attention from critics, curators and moviegoers.”

Published by Oxford University Press in 2024, Comprehending Cinema was preceded by Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema in 2014, and The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama in 2019.