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The adventure of the real : Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema
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- Creator
- Paul Henley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xxvi, 507 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226327143, 0226327140, 9780226327150, 0226327159
- OCLC
- ocn317923025
- 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