Picturing the Primitive
Subtitle: Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312293734
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnography; Film theory & criticism; 20th century; Philosophy; Sociology; Textbooks; Sociology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Europe - Germany; Religious; Exoticism in motion pictures; Germany; Motion pictures; Motion pictures in ethnology; Visual anthropology
First sentence: 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.