The Adventure of the Real : Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema /
Henley, Paul, author.
Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fiction, and exerted an influence far beyond academia. Exhaustively researched yet elegantly written, The Adventure of the Real is the first comprehensive analysis of his practical filmmaking methods. Rouch developed these methods while conducting anthropological research in West Africa in the 1940s-1950s. His innovative use of unscripted im
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Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fiction, and exerted an influence far beyond academia. Exhaustively researched yet elegantly written, The Adventure of the Real is the first comprehensive analysis of his practical filmmaking methods. Rouch developed these methods while conducting anthropological research in West Africa in the 1940s-1950s. His innovative use of unscripted im
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography of Jean Rouch.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
Rouch, Jean.
Cinematographers
Ethnologists
Ethnographic films
Motion pictures in ethnology