Experimental film and anthropology /

Experimental Film and Anthropology' urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materia...

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Other Authors: Schneider, Arnd, 1960- (Editor), Pasqualino, Caterina, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.
Series:Materializing culture.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Experimental Film and Anthropology; Caterina Pasqualino and Arnd Schneider; 2. Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology; Arnd Schneider; 3. Experimental Film, Trance and Near-death Experiences; Caterina Pasqualino; 4. Contemporary Experimental Documentary and the Premises of Anthropology: The Work of Robert Fenz; Nicole Brenez; 5. Our Favorite Film Shocks; Rane Willerslev and Christian Suhr; 6. Do No Harm-the Cameraless Animation of Anthropologist Robert Ascher; Kathryn Ramey.
  • 7. Asynchronicity: Rethinking the Relation of Ear and Eye in Ethnographic PracticeJennifer L. Heuson and Kevin T. Allen; 8. Memory Objects, Memory Dialogues: Common-sense Experiments in Visual Anthropology; Alyssa Grossman; 9. Beyond the Frames of Film and Aboriginal Fieldwork; Barbara Glowczewski; 10. Visual Media Primitivism: Toward a Poetic Ethnography; Martino Nicoletti; 11. From the Grain to the Pixel, Aesthetic and Political Choices; Nadine Wanono; Index of Names.