UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13811854
Format:
1 Videokassette [VHS] (51 Min.)
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NTSC
Series Statement:
Library of African Cinema : [Video]
Content:
A critique of visual anthropology through the work of Jean Rouch looks at European anthropology from an African perspective. Jean Rouch and filmmaker Manthia Diawara compare their interpretations of clips from Rouch's work. Rouch in Reverse is the first film to look at European anthropology from an African perspective. Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara's provocative new film critiques visual anthropology through the work of Jean Rouch, perhaps the most distinguished ethnographic filmmaker of his time. The resulting cross-cultural encounter is alternatively affectionate, strained, personal but always insightful - a film no one committed to a truly multi-cultural social science can afford to miss. In this film, Diawara pioneers what he calls "reverse anthropology" - where the subjects of investigation study their former investigators. He explains: "I made this film on Rouch as a rite of passage for myself. Rouch has played such a key role in the representation of Africans on film. I wanted to pass through Rouch in order to render visible new African voices and images: the ones that defy stereotype and primitivism." (California Newsreel)
Note:
Ausschnitte aus Les maîtres fous (The Mad Masters), Moi, un noir (Treichville) and Chronique d'été (Chronicle of a Summer)
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Franz., und engl, mit engl., Untertiteln
Language:
French
Author information:
Diawara, Manthia
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