Wondrous Difference

Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

AvAlison Griffiths

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Del i serien Film and Culture Series

333 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Inbunden

1 310 kr

Beskrivning

The ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural image-making continue to stir debate among anthropologists, film scholars, and museum professionals. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Featuring more than 100 illustrations, the book examines museums of natural history, world's fairs, scientific and popular photography, and the early filmmaking efforts of anthropologists and commercial producers to investigate how cinema came to assume the role of mediator of cultural difference at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-06
Mått:153 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Film and Culture Series
Antal sidor:528
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231116978

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Alison Griffiths is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. The work on which this book is based won the Society for Cinema Studies dissertation prize.

Recensioner i media

A significant contribution to knowledge about methods of recording and presenting visual culture of non-Western peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Choice With fascinating examples and illustrations culled from a number of international archives,Wondrous Difference is an invaluable resource for cinema historians, anthropologists, archivists, and museum professionals... Griffiths is working within a new tradition of scholars approaching visuality with a historically integrated and culturally critical perspective... The masterful way in which Griffiths navigates and reveals the complexity of these relationships sets a standard for others to follow. -- Amy J. Staples Film Quarterly Wondrous Difference will make an excellent... textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in both visual anthropology and the history of anthropology. -- Deborah Poole Current Anthropology

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Precinema and Ethnographic Representation 1. Life Groups and the Modern Museum Spectator 2. Science and Spectacle: Visualizing the Other at the World's Fair 3. Knowledge and Visuality in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology Part II: Early Ethnographic Film in Science and Popular Culture 4. The Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer 5. "The World Within Your Reach": Popular Cinema and Ethnographic Representation Part III: First Steps: The Museum and Early Filmmakers 6. Early Ethnographic Film at the American Museum of Natural History 7. Finding a Home for Cinema in Ethnography: The First Generation of Anthropologist-Filmmakers in America 8. Conclusion: The Legacy of Early Ethnographic Film