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Here, Jay Ruby - a founder of visual anthropology - distills his 30-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. The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human behaviour on film. Ruby then discusses the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, the nature of ethnography, anthropological knowledge and film, and lays the groundwork for a critical approach to the field that borrows selectively from film, communication, media and cultural studies. Witty and original, yet intensely theoretical, this collection is a major contribution to the field of visual anthropology.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Picturing Culture
• Subtitle: Explorations in Film and Anthropology
• Author: Jay Ruby
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780226730981
• ID: 04548950
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 162 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. August 2000

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