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Experimental Ethnography - The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Paperback)
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Experimental Ethnography - The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Paperback)
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Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered
separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema.
By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell
throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology.
Russell provides detailed analyses of more than thirty-five films
and videos from the 1890s to the 1990s and discusses a wide range
of film and videomakers, including Georges Melies, Maya Deren,
Peter Kubelka, Ray Birdwhistell, Jean Rouch, Su Friedrich, Bill
Viola, Kidlat Tahimik, Margaret Mead, Tracey Moffatt, and Chantal
Akerman. Arguing that video enables us to see film differently--not
as a vanishing culture but as bodies inscripted in technology,
Russell maps the slow fade from modernism to postmodern practices.
Combining cultural critique with aesthetic analysis, she explores
the dynamics of historical interruption, recovery, and
reevaluation. As disciplinary boundaries dissolve, Russell
contends, ethnography is a means of renewing the avant-gardism of
"experimental" film, of mobilizing its play with language and form
for historical ends. "Ethnography" likewise becomes an expansive
term in which culture is represented from many different and
fragmented perspectives.
Original in both its choice of subject and its theoretical and
methodological
approaches, " Experimental Ethnography" will appeal to visual
anthropologists, as well as film scholars interested in
experimental and documentary practices.
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