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, film scholars and experimental film-makers engage in vibrant discussion and offer important new insights for all students and scholars involved in producing their own films. This is indispensable reading for students and scholars in a range of disciplines including anthropology, visual anthropology, visual culture and film and media studies.
6 James Clifford , “ On Ethnographic Allegory , ” in Writing Culture : The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , ed . James Clifford and George E. Marcus ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1986 ) , 115 .
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabinow, the book introduces the concept of the 'Incurable-Image,' an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images.
This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology.
Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field.
The book contains very close readings of many of his films and suggests fresh approaches for analyzing those as well as ethnographic films in general._ _ Ilisa Barbash, coeditor of The Cinema of Robert Gardner
Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze.
Based on two years of participant observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists.
'pataphysics,. copying. X. Andrade. The past thirty years have indeed witnessed a curious mimicry at work within the ... “a corporation,” “an apocryphal society”—initially launched as a mock pop-up gallery in 2004 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video is a state-of-the-art book which encompasses the breadth and depth of the field of ethnographic film and video-based research.