Scott MacDonald (born 1942) is an American media scholar and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, Clinton, New York. It was established as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and received its c ...

. He is known for his works on theory of film and cinema. In 2012, MacDonald was named an Academy Scholar by the

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of adva ...

Books

* ''Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 * ''American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013 * ''Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration'' (Interviews/Essays). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009 * ''Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 * ''Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society''. Temple University Press, 2002 * ''A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005

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Living people 1942 births Hamilton College (New York) faculty American mass media scholars University of Florida alumni DePauw University alumni {{US-academic-stub