Picturing Culture Explorations of Film and Anthropology

Name: Picturing Culture Explorations of Film and Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780226730998

ISBN-10: 0226730999

ISBN-13: 9780226730998

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jay Ruby

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Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects.The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Jay Rubyï¿½is professor emeritus of anthropology at Temple University and the author or editor of numerous books.



Preface


Introduction



Researching with a Camera: The Anthropologist as Picture Taker



The Aggie Must Come First: Robert Flaherty's Place in Ethnographic Film History



Robert Gardner and Anthropological Cinema



Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch



The Ethics of Image Making; or, "They're Going to Put Me in the Movies. They're Going to Make a Big Star Out of Me"



Exposing Yourself: Reflexivity, Anthropology, and Film



The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films



Speaking for, Speaking about, Speaking with, or Speaking Alongside



In the Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and Indigenous Media



Toward an Anthropological Cinema: Some Conclusions and a Possible Future


Notes


References


Index