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Paperback Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology Book

ISBN: 0226730999

ISBN13: 9780226730998

Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology

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Here, Jay Ruby--a founder of visual anthropology--distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the...

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