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The adventure of the real : Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema / Paul Henley.

Penn Museum Library PN1998.3.R674 H46 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Henley, Paul.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Rouch, Jean.
Cinematographers--France.
Cinematographers.
Ethnologists--France.
Ethnologists.
Ethnographic films--Africa, West.
Ethnographic films.
Motion pictures in ethnology--Africa, West.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
West Africa.
France.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 507 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Contents:
Initiation
The surrealist encounter
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
Between Paris and the land of nowhere. New technologies, new methods
Chronicle of a violent game
New wave experiments
Between Paris and the land of nowhere
A struggle waged against corruption
The craft of ethnographic cinema. Totemic ancestors
Inspired performance
The harsh dialogue
The fixing of the truth
Shared anthropology
The legacy of Jean Rouch.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.
ISBN:
9780226327143
0226327140
9780226327150
0226327159
OCLC:
317923025

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