Flash Flaherty

<p><i>Flash Flaherty</i> <i> </i>the much-anticipated follow-up volume to <i>The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema</i> offers a people's<i> </i>history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the creative process surrounding multiple document/documentary forms and modes of the moving image.<br /><br />This collection which includes a mosaic of personal recollections from attendees of the Flaherty Seminar over a span of more than 60 years highlights many facets of the Flaherty experience. The memories of the seminarians reveal how this independent film and media seminar has created a lively and sometimes cantankerous community within and beyond the institutionalized realm of American media culture. Editors Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmermann have curated a collective polyphonic account that moves freely between funny anecdotes poetic impressions critical considerations poignant recollections scholarly observations and artistic insights. <br /><br />Together the contributors to <i>Flash Flaherty</i> exemplify how the Flaherty Seminar propels shared insights challenging debates and actual change in the world of independent media.</p>