The Adventure of the Real : Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema /

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fiction, and exerted an influence far beyond academia. Exhaustively researche...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henley, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
Cinematographers > France.
Ethnographic films > Africa, West.
Ethnologists > France.
Motion pictures in ethnology > Africa, West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
ethnography, ethnographic, cinema, film, movies, cinematic, anthropology, academic, scholarly, research, jean rouch, contemporary, 20th century, modern, career, lifes work, academia, critic, critical, study, analysis, filmmaking, documentary, fiction, west africa, 1940s, 1950s, improv, improvisation, french, new wave, france, aesthetic, ethical, ethics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Initiation
  • 2. The Surrealist Encounter
  • Part I. The Camera and a Man in Africa
  • 3. Nothing but Cinema
  • 4. Encounters with Spirits
  • 5. Heroes of the Modern World
  • 6. Dreams of Black and White
  • 7. Images of Power
  • Part II. Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere
  • Introduction: New Technologies, New Methods
  • 8. Chronicle of a Violent Game
  • 9. New Wave Experiments
  • 10. Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere
  • 11. A Struggle Waged Against Corruption
  • Part III. The Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
  • Introduction: Totemic Ancestors
  • 12. Inspired Performance
  • 13. The Harsh Dialogue
  • 14. The Fixing of the Truth
  • 15. Shared Anthropology
  • 16. The Legacy of Jean Rouch
  • Appendixes
  • 1. The Films of Jean Rouch
  • 2. Jean Rouch's Films by Year and Category, 1946- 2002
  • 3. Films about Jean Rouch and His Nigerien Associates
  • Notes
  • Reference List
  • Index

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