The Anthropological Cinema of Jean Rouch
Abstract
The author makes a penetrating analysis of the “phenomenon” of Jean Rouch’s anthropological films, perhaps one of the greatest personalities of anthropological cinema. Grimshaw concentrates first of all on a few selected films of Rouch, which allows her to both make an in-depth analysis and show inner relationships between the films. Due to the references to intuition and improvisation she terms Rouch a modern-day visionary and a seer. But her analysis also shows that the films are interestingly and ingeniously built. She points out, among other things, that although the construction of Les Maître Fous and Jaguar is based on rite de passage, the films are constructed like in a mirror image.
- The text is a translation of the chapter from the book The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology by Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001. © 2001 by Cambridge University Press.
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Jean Rouch, anthropological cinema, anthropologyReferences
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Anna Grimshawkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Emory University United States
Profesor kultury wizualnej na Emory University (USA), poprzednio wykładowczyni antropologii wizualnej w Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology na University of Manchester. Autorka Servants of the Buddha (1992) oraz redaktorka tomu The C. L. R. James Reader (1992) i (wraz z Amandą Ravetz) Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography (2004).
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