The Cinema of Robert Gardner

The most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is one of the most original, as well as controversial, filmmakers of the last half century. This is the first volume of essays dedicated to his work - a corpus of aesthetically arresting films which includes the classic Dead Birds (1963), a lyric depiction of ritual warfare among the Dugum Dani, in the Highlands of New Guinea; Rivers of Sand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845207734
• ISBN13: 9781845207731
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.7"