The Cinematic Griot

Download The Cinematic Griot full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Cinematic Griot ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Cinematic Griot

The Cinematic Griot
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226775461
ISBN-13 : 9780226775463
Rating : 4/5 (463 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Cinematic Griot by : Paul Stoller

Download or read book The Cinematic Griot written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who "recites" the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrates the inner connection between these two modes of representation. Stoller, who has done more fieldwork among the Songhay than anyone other than Rouch himself, here gives the first full account of Rouch the griot, whose own story scintillates with important implications for anthropology, ethnography, African studies, and film.


The Cinematic Griot Related Books

The Cinematic Griot
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Paul Stoller
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (191
The Cinematic Griot
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Paul Stoller
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (191
The Cinema Book
Language: en
Pages: 626
Authors: Bloomsbury Publishing
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated a
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Dina Sherzer
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-05 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interroga
Documenting the Documentary
Language: en
Pages: 604
Authors: Barry Keith Grant
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-16 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract