Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary-maker Jean Rouch. A figure as comfortable in front of the camera as behind it, Rouch created some of the most enduring sociological films about French and francophone African culture, and his playful documentaries make him the spiritual ancestor of filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore, and a precursor to the world of Big Brother and reality TV. Based on a major inter-national conference, this study contains over twenty new essays from a global cast of filmmakers, film critics, academics and actors, including a number of Rouch's African-based collaborators, and discusses his massive contribution to ethnographic filmmaking with films such as Les Maitres fous (1955), Le Pyramide humaine (1961) and Chronique d'un été (1961). This collection is set to become a benchmark study of one of the most influential documentary presences of the last century.
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Joram ten Brink is a filmmaker and Reader in Film at the University of Westminster.
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I never met Jean Rouch in person, but I first encountered his films during my visual anthropology classes many years ago in Holland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Jean Rouch, University of Minnesota Press, Damouré Zika, Les Maîtres, New York, Ivory Coast, University of California Press, Edgar Morin, West Africa, World War Two, Dakar-Djibouti Mission, Marcel Griaule, Oumarou Ganda, Joris Ivens, Enrico Fulchignoni, Germaine Dieterlen, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Claude, Marcel Mauss, Gare du Nord, Bandiagara Cliffs, Dorothy Lamour, Oxford University Press, Lam Ibrahima Dia, British Film Institute Browse Sample Pages:
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I never met Jean Rouch in person, but I first encountered his films during my visual anthropology classes many years ago in Holland. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
les tambours, Cinémathèque Française, des mages noirs, pyramide humaine, film ethnographique, documentary evidential, dun été, magie songhay, shared anthropology, meurent aussi, possession ceremonies, anthropological films, ethnographic film, sync sound, totemic ancestor, second legacy, sacred cattle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jean Rouch, University of Minnesota Press, Damouré Zika, Les Maîtres, New York, Ivory Coast, University of California Press, Edgar Morin, West Africa, World War Two, Dakar-Djibouti Mission, Marcel Griaule, Oumarou Ganda, Joris Ivens, Enrico Fulchignoni, Germaine Dieterlen, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Claude, Marcel Mauss, Gare du Nord, Bandiagara Cliffs, Dorothy Lamour, Oxford University Press, Lam Ibrahima Dia, British Film Institute Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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