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Author Groo, Katherine, author

Title Bad film histories : ethnography and the early archive / Katherine Groo
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Untimely Historiographies, Ethnographic Particularities; 1 Of Other Archives: The Excursive Minors of La Maison Lumière and Les Archives de la Planète; 2 Historical Figures: Dance and the Unlettered Line; 3 Following Derrida: Ethnocinematic Animals, Death Effects, and the Supplement of Expedition Cinema; 4 Language Games, or The World Intertitled; 5 Ethnography Won't Wait: New Media and Material Histories; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary A vital work that unsettles the authority of the archive, the author daringly takes readers to the margins of the film record, addressing the undertheorization of film history and offering a rigorous corrective. Taking ethnographic cinema as a crucial case study, the author challenges standard ways of thinking and writing about film history and questions widespread assumptions about what film artifacts are an what makes them meaningful. Rather than filling holes, the author endeavors to understand the imprecisions and absences that define film history and its archives, boldly reexamining what early ethnographic cinema is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnographic films -- History
Motion pictures in ethnology -- History
Visual anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Ethnographic films
Motion pictures in ethnology
Visual anthropology
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452960111
1452960119