Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.
Contents:
Initiation -- The surrealist encounter -- The camera and a man in Africa. Nothing but cinema -- Encounters with spirits -- Heroes of the modern world -- Dreams of black and white -- Images of power -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere. New technologies, new methods -- Chronicle of a violent game -- New wave experiments -- Between Paris and the land of nowhere -- A struggle waged against corruption -- The craft of ethnographic cinema. Totemic ancestors -- Inspired performance -- The harsh dialogue -- The fixing of the truth -- Shared anthropology -- The legacy of Jean Rouch.
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