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20%OFFPaul Stoller - The Cinematic Griot - 9780226775487 - V9780226775487
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The Cinematic Griot

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Description for The Cinematic Griot Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 23 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; APF; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology.

A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who "recites" the story ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226775487
SKU
V9780226775487
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