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Transcultural cinema /

"Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an &q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacDougall, David
Corporate Author: Anthropology Online
Other Authors: Taylor, Lucien
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Series:Anthropology online.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lucien Taylor
  • 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject
  • 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing
  • 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film
  • 4. Beyond Observational Cinema
  • 5. Complicities of Style
  • 6. Whose Story Is It?
  • 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films
  • 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise
  • 9. Unprivileged Camera Style
  • 10. When Less is Less
  • 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary
  • 12. Films of Memory
  • 13. Transcultural Cinema.