Picturing Culture
Subtitle: Explorations of Film and Anthropology
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780226730981
Subjects: Anthropology; Film theory & criticism; Media studies; Social Science; Sociology; Movie/Tv Tie-Ins; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Motion pictures in ethnology; Visual anthropology
First sentence: One motivation for the creation of a motion-picture technology was to provide scientists with a mechanism to record and study human behavior (Musser 1990).