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Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology - Softcover

Ruby, Jay

 
9780226730998: Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226730999 ISBN 13: 9780226730998
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects.

The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human behavior on film. Ruby then discusses the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, the nature of ethnography, anthropological knowledge, and film and lays the groundwork for a critical approach to the field that borrows selectively from film, communication, media, and cultural studies. Witty and original, yet intensely theoretical, this collection is a major contribution to the field of visual anthropology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jay Ruby is professor emeritus of anthropology at Temple University and the author or editor of numerous books.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226730999
ISBN 13 
9780226730998
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
354
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