ISBN:
9780857854438
,
9780857854421
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 205 S.
,
Ill.
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Experimental film and anthropology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Motion pictures in ethnology
;
Experimental films
;
Visual anthropology
;
Ethnology Methodology
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Rezension
;
Rezension
;
Experimentalfilm
;
Visuelle Ethnologie
;
Ethnologischer Film
Abstract:
Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad, inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions, to investigate the potential for new common practices. An international range of renowned anthropologists, fi
Description / Table of Contents:
FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Experimental Film and Anthropology; Caterina Pasqualino and Arnd Schneider; 2. Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology; Arnd Schneider; 3. Experimental Film, Trance and Near-death Experiences; Caterina Pasqualino; 4. Contemporary Experimental Documentary and the Premises of Anthropology: The Work of Robert Fenz; Nicole Brenez; 5. Our Favorite Film Shocks; Rane Willerslev and Christian Suhr; 6. Do No Harm-the Cameraless Animation of Anthropologist Robert Ascher; Kathryn Ramey
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Asynchronicity: Rethinking the Relation of Ear and Eye in Ethnographic PracticeJennifer L. Heuson and Kevin T. Allen; 8. Memory Objects, Memory Dialogues: Common-sense Experiments in Visual Anthropology; Alyssa Grossman; 9. Beyond the Frames of Film and Aboriginal Fieldwork; Barbara Glowczewski; 10. Visual Media Primitivism: Toward a Poetic Ethnography; Martino Nicoletti; 11. From the Grain to the Pixel, Aesthetic and Political Choices; Nadine Wanono; Index of Names
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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