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23%OFFJay Ruby - Picturing Culture - 9780226730998 - V9780226730998
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Picturing Culture

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Description for Picturing Culture Paperback. This text explores the relationship between film and anthropology. It analyzes key filmmakers, the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, ethnography and anthropological knowledge. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Here, Jay Ruby - a founder of visual anthropology - distills his 30-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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226730998
SKU
V9780226730998
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