Picturing culture : explorations of film & anthropology / Jay Ruby.

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Ruby, Jay, author.

Title & Author:

Picturing culture : explorations of film & anthropology / Jay Ruby.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
©2000

Description:

xiii, 339 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.
1. Researching with a Camera: The Anthropologist as Picture Taker -- 2. The Aggie Must Come First: Robert Flaherty's Place in Ethnographic Film History -- 3. Robert Gardner and Anthropological Cinema -- 4. Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch -- 5. The Ethics of Image Making, or, "They're Going to Put Me in the Movies. They're Going to Make a Big Star Out of Me" -- 6. Exposing Yourself: Relfexivity, Anthropology, and Film -- 7. The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films -- 8. Speaking for, Speaking about, Speaking with, or Speaking Alongside -- 9. In the Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and Indigenous Media -- 10. Toward an Anthropological Cinema: Some Conclusions and a Possible Future.

Summary:

Jay Ruby distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects. [publisher].

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ISBN:

0226730980 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780226730981 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0226730999 (pbk.)
9780226730998 (pbk.)

Subject:

Motion pictures in ethnology.
Visual anthropology.
Cinéma en ethnologie.
Anthropologie visuelle.
73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology.
Ethnologie
Film
Visuelle Medien
Kulturanthropologie
Etnografische films.
Films ethnographiques.
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236207
Call No.: BIB 166038
Status: Available

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