Scott MacDonald is author of the series, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, in five volumes from University of California Press, and eleven other books, most recently, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn (California, 2013), Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (Oxford, 2014), and Binghamton Babylon: Voices from the Cinema Department (a nonfiction novel) (SUNY Press, 2015). He was an Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honoree in 1999 and was named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2012. He teaches film history at Hamilton College.