ISBN:
9780857459640
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Transcultural Montage
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Ethnology ; Authorship
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Ethnology ; Philosophy
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Motion pictures in ethnology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors-anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators-explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Montage as an Amplifier of Invisibility; Part I - Montage as an Analytic; Chapter 1 - Montage and Time: Deleuze, Cinema, and a Buddhist Sorcery Rite; Chapter 2 - Temporal Aesthetics: On Deleuzian Montage in Anthropology; Chapter 3 - All the Difference in the World: Liminality, Montage, and the Reinvention of Comparative Anthropology; Chapter 4 - Into the Gloaming: A Montage of the Senses; Part II - Montage in Writing; Chapter 5 - Being a Montage; Chapter 6 - Smith's Tour Favela
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 - Labor Days: A Non-Linear Narrative of DevelopmentChapter 8 - Mind the Gap; Part III - Montage in Film; Chapter 9 - Women in Cities: Comparative Modernities and Cinematic Space in the 1930s; Chapter 10 - Radioglaz and the Global City: Possibilities and Constraints of Experimental Montage; Chapter 11 - Filming in the Light of Memory; Chapter 12 - Montage as Analysis in Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking: From Hunting for Plots Toward Weaving Baskets of Data; Chapter 13 - In Defense of Observational Cinema: The Significance of the Bazinian Turn for Ethnographic Filmmaking
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV - Montage in Museum ExhibitionsChapter 14 - Assembling Potentials, Mounting Effects: Ethnographic Exhibitions Beyond Correspondence; Chapter 15 - Assembling Bodies: Cuts, Clusters, and Juxtapositions; Chapter 16 - Project Villa Sovietica: Clashing Images, Expectations, and Receptions; Afterword - The Traffic In Montage, Then and Now; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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