Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology

by Jay Ruby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226730999
• ISBN13: 9780226730998
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"