Picturing the Primitive Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema

Primitive Pictures 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',...

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Main Author: Oksiloff, Assenka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2001, 2001
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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