Rouch in reverse / a film by Manthia Diawara ; a Formation Films production for ZDF/ARTE.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Rouch, Jean, interviewee.

Diawara, Manthia, 1953- interviewer, director, author.

Vir, Parminder, producer.

Formation Films, producer.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Library of African cinema.

Library of African cinema

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rouch, Jean--Interviews.

Rouch, Jean.

Ethnologists--France.

Ethnologists.

Ethnologists--Niger.

Cinematographers--France.

Cinematographers.

Motion pictures in ethnology.

Ethnology--Africa.

Ethnology.

Visual anthropology.

Interviews.

Africa.

Visual anthropology--Africa.

Documentary films--Production and direction.

Documentary films.

France.

Niger.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (51 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1995]

Language Note:

In English and French with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

French ethnologist/filmmaker Jean Rouch discusses his work with Manthia Diawara. Includes a cross-section of Rouch's work with clips from his documentary Les Maitres Fous, his cinema verite classic, Chronique D'ete, and his pioneering masterpiece Moi, Un Noir (Treichville). Throughout the interview Diawara places Rouch's films in the context of the on-going struggle of Africans to construct their own vision of modernity.

Participant:

Jean Rouch, Manthia Diawara.

Credits:

Producer, Parminder Vir ; director/writer, Manthia Diawara ; camera, Arthur Jafa, Khalid Frikha; editors, Sikay Tang, Justine Krish; music, Yacine Kouyate.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

OCLC:

34497132