Picturing the Primitive - Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema (Paperback, New)

Picturing the Primitive explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. The term that binds the two is the 'Primitive', referring both to cultures ostensibly existing outside of modern time and also to a way of seeing the world via the lens. Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion, is legitimated by the primitive body in the first decades of the 20th century.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	2001
Authors:	A. Oksiloff
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	227
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-29373-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-312-29373-9
Barcode:	9780312293734

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