Experimental Film and Anthropology
Experimental Film and Anthropology

Author: Arnd Schneider

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0857858211

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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, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad, inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions, to investigate the potential for new common practices. An international range of renowned anthropologists, film scholars and experimental film-makers engage in vibrant discussion and offer important new insights for all students and scholars involved in producing their own films. This is indispensable reading for students and scholars in a range of disciplines including anthropology, visual anthropology, visual culture and film and media studies.

Experimental Ethnography
Experimental Ethnography

Author: Catherine Russell

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780822323198

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A sophisticated theoretical consideration of the related aesthetics and histories of ethnographic and experimental non-fiction films.

Experimental Film and Anthropology
Experimental Film and Anthropology

Author: Arnd Schneider

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1000189600

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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, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad, inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions, to investigate the potential for new common practices. An international range of renowned anthropologists, film scholars and experimental film-makers engage in vibrant discussion and offer important new insights for all students and scholars involved in producing their own films. This is indispensable reading for students and scholars in a range of disciplines including anthropology, visual anthropology, visual culture and film and media studies.

Observational Cinema
Observational Cinema

Author: Anna Grimshaw

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-11-17

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0253221587

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Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. The author's provide a critical historyand in-depth appraisal of this movement.

Expanded Visions
Expanded Visions

Author: Arnd Schneider

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780367253684

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Expanded visions -- Experimenting with film, art and ethnography: Oppitz, Downey, Lockhart -- Rethinking anthropological researh and representation through experimental film -- Stills that move: photohilm and anthropology -- On the set of a cinema movie in a Mapuche reservation -- A black box for participatory cinema: movie making with "neighbors" in Saladillo, Argentina -- An anthropology of abandon: art--ethnography in the films of Cyrill Lachauer -- Can film restitute? Expanded moving image visions for museum objects in the times of decolony.

Made to Be Seen
Made to Be Seen

Author: Marcus Banks

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0226036634

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Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to Made to be Seen reflect on the role of the visual in all areas of life. Different essays critically examine a range of topics: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, the body as a cultural phenomenon, the relationship between experimental and ethnographic film, and more. The first attempt to present a comprehensive overview of the many aspects of an anthropological approach to the study of visual and pictorial culture, Made to be Seen will be the standard reference on the subject for years to come. Students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, visual studies, and cultural studies will greatly benefit from this pioneering look at the way the visual is inextricably threaded through most, if not all, areas of human activity.

Film Festivals and Anthropology
Film Festivals and Anthropology

Author: María-Paz Peirano

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 144387471X

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This collection explores the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. Film and anthropology scholars map ethnographic film festivals and ethnographic approaches to festivals worldwide. The book provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel evolution of programming and organisational practices across the globe. It also addresses the great value and challenges of ethnographic research tools for studying the wide-ranging field of film festivals. This volume is the first to collect long-term experiences of curating and exhibiting ethnographic film, as well as new approaches to the understanding of film festival practices. Its contributions reflect on curatorial practices within visual anthropology and their implications for ethnographic filmmaking, and they shed light on problems of cultural translation, funding, festival audiences and the institutionalisation of ethnographic cinema. The book offers a novel perspective on film festivals as showcases for cinema, socio-cultural hubs and distribution nodes. Aimed at anthropologists, media scholars, festival organisers and documentary film professionals, it offers a starting point for the study of ethnographic film exhibition within its cultural and social contexts.

Lessons in Perception
Lessons in Perception

Author: Paul Taberham

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1785339028

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Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental artists such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, and Jordan Belson. In illustrating how avant-garde filmmakers draw from their own mental and perceptual capacities, author Paul Taberham offers a compelling account of how their works expand the spectator’s range of aesthetic sensitivities and open creative vistas uncharted by commercial cinema.

Experimental Filmmaking
Experimental Filmmaking

Author: Kathryn Ramey

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1136071504

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Experimental Filmmaking emerges out of a deep and abiding love of celluloid and artisanal media practices and a personal exploration of the field of avant-garde and experimental film, animation and video produced since the beginnings of cinema. Although there have been many critical and historical books on the subject, with the exception of zines and hand-published volumes, there has never been a comprehensive instructional manual on experimental processes. This book will introduce film students and professional filmmakers alike to various methods of experimental animation, film and video production that involve material interventions into the normative process of the medium while offering brief introductions to artists and their works.

Avant-doc
Avant-doc

Author: Scott MacDonald

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0199388717

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With in-depth interviews of directors like Nina Davenport, Ross McElwee, Ed Pincus, and others, Avant-Doc provides a unique oral history of the hybrid genre of nonfiction film that combines the techniques of avant-garde auteurs with the more traditional methods of conventional storytelling.