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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henley, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Rouch, Jean.
Cinematographers > France.
Ethnologists > France.
Ethnographic films > Africa, West.
Motion pictures in ethnology > Africa, West.
Table of 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.