Picturing the Primitive : Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema

Name: Picturing the Primitive
Brand: St Martin's Press
SKU: 9780312293734
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780312293734

by A. Oksiloff

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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

Product Classification: Central Europe Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism Cultural studies Cultural studies Anthropology Physical anthropology

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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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