Format:
XXVI, 507 S. :
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
978-0-226-32714-3
,
978-0-226-32715-0
Content:
Here, Henley examines the technical strategies, aesthetic considerations, and ethical positions that contribute to Rouch's cinematographic legacy. Featuring over 150 images, this book is an essential introduction to Rouch's work.
Note:
Initiation -- The surrealist Encounter -- Part I. The Camera and a Man in Africa -- Nothing but cinema -- Encounters with Spirits -- Heroes of the modern world -- Dreams of black and white -- Images of power -- Part II. Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- Introduction: New technologies, new methods -- Chronicle of a violent game -- New wave experiments -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- A struggle waged against corruption -- Part III. The craft of ethnographic cinema -- Introduction: Totemic ancestors -- Inspired performance -- The Harsh dialogue -- The fixing of the truth -- Shared anthropology -- The legacy of Jean Rouch -- Appendixes -- The films of Jean Rouch -- Jean Rouch's films by year and category, 1946-2002 -- Films about Jean Rouch and his Nigerien associates. - Includes filmography of Jean Rouch
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
General works
Keywords:
1917-2004 Rouch, Jean
;
Ethnologischer Film
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