Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video

by Catherine Russell

Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology.
Russell provides detailed analyses of more than thirty-five films and videos from the 1890s to the 1990s and discusses a wide range of film and videomakers, including Georges M?li?s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323192
• ISBN13: 9780822323198
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"