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Picturing the primitive : visual culture, ethnography, and early German cinema / Assenka Oksiloff.
Penn Museum Library GN347 .O38 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oksiloff, Assenka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual anthropology--Germany.
- Visual anthropology.
- Motion pictures in ethnology--Germany.
- Motion pictures in ethnology.
- Exoticism in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Germany--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Germany.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Picturing the Primitive" explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. The term that binds the two is the 'Primitive', referring both to cultures ostensibly existing outside of modern time and also to a way of seeing the world via the lens. Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion, is legitimated by the primitive body in the first decades of the 20th century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312235542
- 0312293739
- OCLC:
- 46538534
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