Full Description
This book argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together an important range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology.
It builds on recent attempts to develop more experimental formats and engages with debates on epistemologies of ethnography, relational aesthetics, materiality, sensory ethnography, and observational and participatory cinema. Arnd Schneider critically revisits Baudrillard's idea of the simulacrum and the hyperreal, engages with new media theory, and elaborates on the potential of the Writing Culture critique for moving image practices bordering art and anthropology.
This collection of essays is essential reading for anybody working across the fields of visual anthropology, film and media studies and visual studies. Schneider ambitiously considers the complex relationship between the moving image and anthropology, highlighting the potential for innovative approaches, experimental methods, and expanded perspectives in both fields.
Contents
1. Expanded Visions 2. Experimenting with Film, Art and Ethnography: Oppitz, Downey, Lockhart 3. Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation through Experimental Film 4. Stills that Move: Photofilm and Anthropology 5. On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation 6. A Black Box for Participatory Cinema: Movie-making with ''Neighbors'' in Saladillo, Argentina 7. An Anthropology of Abandon: Art--Ethnography in the Films of Cyrill Lachauer 8. Can film restitute? Expanded Moving Image Visions for Museum Objects in the Times of Decolony
