Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Initiation The Surrealist Encounter Part I: The Camera and a Man In Africa Nothing but Cinema Encounters with Spirits Heroes of the Modern World Dreams of Black and White Images of Power Part II: Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere Introduction: New Technologies, New Methods Chronicle of a Violent Game New Wave Experiments Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere A Struggle Waged Against Corruption Part III: The Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Introduction: Totemic Ancestors Inspired Performance The Harsh Dialogue The Fixing of the Truth Shared Anthropology The Legacy of Jean Rouch Appendixes 1. The Films of Jean Rouch 2. Jean Rouch's Films by Year and Category, 1946- 2002 3. Films about Jean Rouch and His Nigerien Associates Notes Reference List Index
SynopsisThough 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 improvisation by his subjects had a profound impact on the French New Wave, Paul Henley reveals, while his documentary work launched the genre of cinema-vérité . In addition to tracking Rouch's pioneering career, Henley examines the technical strategies, aesthetic considerations, and ethical positions that contribute to Rouch's cinematographic legacy. Featuring over one hundred and fifty images, The Adventure of the Real is an essential introduction to Rouch's work., 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 improvisation by his subjects had a profound impact on the French New Wave, Paul Henley reveals, while his documentary work launched the genre of cinema-v rit . In addition to tracking Rouch's pioneering career, Henley examines the technical strategies, aesthetic considerations, and ethical positions that contribute to Rouch's cinematographic legacy. Featuring over one hundred and fifty images, The Adventure of the Real is an essential introduction to Rouch's work., The Enhanced Professional DVD-ROM Edition is a high-powered research and mobilization platform that takesOperation Worldbeyond your bookshelf and empowers you to bring the data to life as you minister with others.