Picturing the Primitive explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. The term that binds the two is the 'Primitive', referring both to cultures ostensibly existing outside of modern time and also to a way of seeing the world via the lens. Oksiloff examines how the movie camera, with its capacity to record reality in a supposedly direct fashion, is legitimated by the primitive body in the first decades of the 20th century.
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Assenka Oksiloff is Assistant Professor of German, New York University.
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One of the key features in the union of camera and human subject is a type of reverse evolution, often evoked explicitly in the name of Darwinism, of the body from a complex biological and social organism into an artifact. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive viewer, primitive cinema, primitive body, ethnographic spectacle, mutual glance, visible man, screening the body, cinematic aesthetic, research films, ethnographic film, native body, social evolutionism, visual anthropology, evolutionist theories, early cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Visible Man, New Guinea, South Seas, Paradise Lost, South West Africa, Leo Frobenius, The Isle of the Blessed, Atlas Africanus, Bushman Speaking, Siegfried Kracauer, Wissenschaftlichen Film, World War, Adolf Bastian, Asta Nielsen, Nanook of the North, Sociology of the Senses, Solf Visits Togo, Bill Nichols, Collected Works, Franz Boas, Frobenius's Africa, Paul Broca, Richard Neuhauss, Tom Gunning, While Bazin New!
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One of the key features in the union of camera and human subject is a type of reverse evolution, often evoked explicitly in the name of Darwinism, of the body from a complex biological and social organism into an artifact. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive viewer, primitive cinema, primitive body, ethnographic spectacle, mutual glance, visible man, screening the body, cinematic aesthetic, research films, ethnographic film, native body, social evolutionism, visual anthropology, evolutionist theories, early cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Visible Man, New Guinea, South Seas, Paradise Lost, South West Africa, Leo Frobenius, The Isle of the Blessed, Atlas Africanus, Bushman Speaking, Siegfried Kracauer, Wissenschaftlichen Film, World War, Adolf Bastian, Asta Nielsen, Nanook of the North, Sociology of the Senses, Solf Visits Togo, Bill Nichols, Collected Works, Franz Boas, Frobenius's Africa, Paul Broca, Richard Neuhauss, Tom Gunning, While Bazin New!
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- The Decline of the West (Abridged) by Oswald Spengler on 6 pages
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- Collecting Visible Evidence by Jane Gaines on 5 pages
- Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 by Lucien Taylor on 5 pages
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