Picturing the Primitive : Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema
by
A. Oksiloff
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0312293739
ISBN-13
9780312293734
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Imprint
St Martin's Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 30th, 2002
Print length
227 Pages
Weight
290 grams
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Primitive Pictures explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with 'primitive' cultures. From the earliest research footage to popularized adventure footage, the film theory, the 'primitive' holds out the promise of a critical space that affirms modern, technological vision.
Picturing the Primitive explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology''s fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. The term that binds the two is the ''Primitive'', referring both to cultures ostensibly existing outside of modern time and also to a way of seeing the world via the lens. Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion, is legitimated by the primitive body in the first decades of the 20th century.
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