Picturing the Primitive
Subtitle: Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Early German Cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312235543
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnography; Film theory & criticism; 20th century; Sociology; Philosophy; Germany; Anthropology - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Sociology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Europe - Germany; Political; Exoticism in motion pictures; 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.