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

Title
The adventure of the real : Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema / Paul Henley.
Author
Henley, Paul.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description
xxvi, 507 p. : ill, maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Rouch, Jean
  • Cinematographers > France
  • Ethnologists > France
  • Ethnographic films > Africa, West
  • Motion pictures in ethnology > Africa, West
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 10-330
ISBN
  • 9780226327143 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226327140 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226327150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226327159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009028839
OCLC
317923025
Author
Henley, Paul.
Title
The adventure of the real : Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema / Paul Henley.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-330
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