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The adventure of the real : Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema / Paul Henley.

By: Henley, Paul
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xxvi, 507 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780226327143; 0226327140; 9780226327150 (pbk.); 0226327159 (pbk.)Subject(s): Rouch, Jean, 1917-2004DDC classification: 791.4302/33092
Contents:
Initiation -- The surrealist encounter -- The camera and a man in Africa -- Nothing but cinema -- Encounters with spirits -- Heroes of the modern world -- Dreams of black and white -- Images of power -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- New technologies, new methods -- Chronicle of a violent game -- New wave experiments -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- A struggle waged against corruption -- The craft of ethnographic cinema -- Totemic ancestors -- Inspired performance -- The harsh dialogue -- The fixing of the truth -- Shared anthropology -- The legacy of Jean Rouch.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves HAE [HEN-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L80588
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.

Initiation -- The surrealist encounter -- The camera and a man in Africa -- Nothing but cinema -- Encounters with spirits -- Heroes of the modern world -- Dreams of black and white -- Images of power -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- New technologies, new methods -- Chronicle of a violent game -- New wave experiments -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- A struggle waged against corruption -- The craft of ethnographic cinema -- Totemic ancestors -- Inspired performance -- The harsh dialogue -- The fixing of the truth -- Shared anthropology -- The legacy of Jean Rouch.

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