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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mortimer, Lorraine
Titre(s) : Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology [Texte imprimé] : explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible / Lorraine Mortimer
Publication : Bloomington, (Ind.) : Indiana University press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 347 pages) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues
that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals,
particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain
separate. This book reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall,
a New Zealand-born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the
vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s.
Mentored by Margaret Mead in anthropology and Cecile Starr in fine arts, Sandall was
eventually hired as the one-man film unit at the newly formed Australian Institute
of Aboriginal Studies in 1965. In the 1970s, he became a lecturer in anthropology
at the University of Sydney. Sandall won First Prize for Documentary at the Venice
Film Festival in 1968, yet his films are scarcely known, even in Australia now. Mortimer
demonstrates how Sandall's films continue to be relevant to contemporary discussions
in the fields of anthropology and documentary studies. She ties exploration of the
making and restriction of Sandall's aboriginal films and his nonrestricted films made
in Mexico, Australia, and India to the radical history of anthropology and the resurgence
today of an expanded, existential-phenomenological anthropology that encompasses the
vital connections between humans, animals, things, and our environment"
Sujet(s) : Sandall, Roger (1933-2012) -- Critique et interprétation
Films ethnographiques
Indice(s) Dewey :
301.020 8 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie - Traitement audiovisuel
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780253043979. - ISBN 0253043972. - ISBN 9780253043948. - ISBN 0253043948. -
ISBN 9780253043955 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465353929
Notice n° :
FRBNF46535392
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Trusting the material : Maíz (1962) ; Environments fit for the spirit : The Flahertys,
Sandall, and some anarchist anthropology ; They were still participants : The ritual
films (1966-76) ; The colors of the infinite : Camels and the Pitjantjara (1969)
; "What you thinkin' about, little horse?" : Coniston Muster : scenes from a stockman's
life (1972) ; Harmony and fire : Making a bark canoe (1969) and A Walbiri fire ceremony
: Ngatjakula (1967 and 1977) ; More optional and more fragile : Weddings (1976)
; In the floating desert with Jayasinhji Jhala, part 1 : The Tragada Bhavai : a rural
theater troupe of Gujarat (1981), A Zenana : scenes and recollections (1982), and
The Bharvad predicament (1987) ; In the floating desert with Jayasinhji Jhala, part
2 : Close encounters of no kind (2002) and Nomads (1984)