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Llisa Barash - The Cinema of Robert Gardner - 9781845207748 - V9781845207748
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The Cinema of Robert Gardner

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Description for The Cinema of Robert Gardner Paperback. One of the most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is original, as well as controversial, filmmakers. This title contains essays dedicated to his work - a corpus of films including "Dead Birds" (1963), "Rivers of Sand" (1974), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986). Editor(s): Taylor, Lucien; Barbash, Ilisa. Num Pages: 264 pages, 52 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 173 x 12. Weight in Grams: 520.
The most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is one of the most original, as well as controversial, filmmakers of the last half century. This is the first volume of essays dedicated to his work - a corpus of aesthetically arresting films which includes the classic Dead Birds (1963), a lyric depiction of ritual warfare among the Dugum Dani, in the Highlands of New Guinea; Rivers of Sand (1974), a provocative portrayal of relations between the sexes among the Hamar, in southwestern Ethiopia; and Forest of Bliss (1986), a sublime city symphony about ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845207748
SKU
V9781845207748
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About Llisa Barash
Ilisa Barbash is Associate Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. In 1998, she founded the Graduate Program in Transcultural and Ethnographic Filmmaking, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, which she directed until moving to Harvard in 2002. Her film works (all co-directed with Lucien Taylor) include Made in U.S.A. (1990), a film about sweatshops and child ... Read more

Reviews for The Cinema of Robert Gardner
'Gardner transmits the sensation of the deep and literate gaze, and does so with an intensity that passes from the documentary into the visionary.'Seamus Heaney'Gardner's camera scans with precision and feels with sympathy-the objectivity of an anthropologist, the fraternity of a poet.'Octavio Paz

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