The third eye : race, cinema, and ethnographic spectacle /

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"Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rony, Fatimah Tobing (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures.
Visual anthropology.
Cinéma en ethnologie.
Autochtones au cinéma.
Anthropologie visuelle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
Motion pictures in ethnology
Visual anthropology
Filmkunst.
Beeldvorming.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Stereotypen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Third Eye
  • 1. Seeing Anthropology: Felix-Louis Regnault, the Narrative of Race, and the Performers at the Ethnographic Exposition
  • 2. The Writing of Race in Film: Felix-Louis Regnault and the Ideology of the Ethnographic Film Archive
  • 3. Gestures of Self-Protection: The Picturesque and the Travelogue
  • 4. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North
  • 5. Time and Redemption in the "Racial Film" of the 1920s and 1930s
  • 6. King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema
  • Conclusion: Passion of Remembrance: Facing the Camera/Grabbing the Camera.

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